Sanakirja.org

Määritelmät

Substantiivi

1. (archaic) A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.
2. (countable, uncountable, Ireland, Orkney, Shetland) Alternative spelling of mulder (“one or more crumbled pieces of food, especially oatcake; a crumb or crumbs”).
3. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of mold (“a natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air”)
4. (uncountable, obsolete) Synonym of mold (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.
5. A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
6. An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.
7. (figurative) A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper.
8. (metalworking) A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker.

Verbi

1. (chiefly Northern England, Scotland) Often followed by away or down: to cause (something) to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.
2. (figurative, obsolete) To cause (someone or something) to die away or disappear.
3. Often followed by away: to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.
4. To die away, to disappear.
5. (obsolete) Often followed by away: of a group of people (especially an army): to diminish in number; to dwindle.