moulder

Often followed by away or down: to cause (something) to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.Northern-EnglandScotlandUK

• [S]harp and corroding rheums had so early mouldered those rocks and hardest parts of his fabric [teeth], that a man might well conceive that his years were never like to double or twice tell over his teeth.

To cause (someone or something) to die away or disappear.UKfigurativelyobsolete

• How many men have we seen moulder and crumble away great estates, and yet pay no debts?

Often followed by away: to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.UKintransitive

• To them [the Muses] Great WILLIAM's Glory to recal / VVhen Statues moulder, and vvhen Arches fall.
• [H]is [Time's] gradual touch / Has moulder'd into beauty many a tovver, / VVhich, vvhen it frovvn'd vvith all its battlements, / VVas only terrible: […]

To die away, to disappear.UKfigurativelyintransitive

• As to thoſe offerd condeſcenſions of Charitable connivence, or toleration, if vve conſider vvhat vvent before, and vvhat follovvs, they moulder into nothing.
• [A]ll idea of serious opposition to the house of Hanover had long mouldered away; […]

Often followed by away: of a group of people (especially an army): to diminish in number; to dwindle.UKfigurativelyintransitive

• The other [preacher] finding his congregation mouldering every Sunday, and hearing at length what was the occasion of it, resolved to give his parish a little Latin in his turn; […]

A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.UKarchaic

A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.UKbroadly

• It was, however, most interesting work, and the moulders themselves were a decent crowd, never tired of making jokes about themselves such as the hoary one that moulders did not live long, which however ran counter to the other one that no

An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.UKbroadly

A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper.UKbroadlyfiguratively

A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker.UK

Alternative spelling of mulder (“one or more crumbled pieces of food, especially oatcake; a crumb or crumbs”).IrelandOrkneyShetland

Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.UKobsoleteuncountable

• [B]y the ſenſe of our ayrie bodies we haue a more refined faculty of forſeeing, than men poſſibly can haue, that are chained to ſuch heauie earthlie moulder; […]

Synonym of mould (“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”)UKobsoleterare

• [G]reat danger is to be apprehended to the health of the crews, and damage to the provisions and stores on board, from the damp state in which such ships must be in, for a long time after being taken out of the water. Houses, built with sto