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mouldy |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Moldy \Mold"y\, Mouldy \Mould"y\, a. [Compar. {Moldier}or {Mouldier}; superl. {Moldiest} or {Mouldiest}.] [From {Mold} the growth of fungi.] Overgrown with or containing, mold; as moldy cheese or bread. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Mould \Mould\ (m[=o]ld), Moulder \Mould"er\, Mouldy \Mould"y\, etc See {Mold}, {Molder}, {Moldy}, etc From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: mouldy adj : covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor" [syn: {moldy}, {musty}] From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Mouldy Of the Gibeonites it is said that "all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy" (Josh. 9:5, 12). The Hebrew word here rendered mouldy" nikuddim is rendered cracknels" in 1 Kings 14:3, and denotes a kind of crisp cake. The meaning is that the bread of the Gibeonites had become dry and hard, hard as biscuits, and thus was an evidence of the length of the journey they had travelled.
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