Process by which an animal routinely casts off a part of its body.
1 But I didn't know that it was moulting when people grow bald.
2 Out on the sea-ice, there were Adelie and Emperor penguins; the latter moulting .
3 The lower record of January was caused by some pullets moulting .
4 Night brooded here like a dyspeptic raven with moulting tail-feathers and ragged wings.
5 Any live factory can always be seen moulting year after year.
6 Dank walls rose between towers that were topped with cones of moulting shingle.
7 This poor creature was moulting ; its feathers were rumpled and disordered; its tail ragged.
8 Youth was on the point, may the reader pardon us the word, of moulting .
9 We procured also some caccawees which were then moulting and assembled in immense flocks.
10 It will not eat when moulting , nor in cold weather.
11 September sees a great change in the old crows, too, Their moulting is over.
12 Outside the killzone ships and drones spun away inertly, moulting charred flakes of nulfoam.
13 I shall never be old except when I am moulting .
14 I am no moulting fowl, nor is this arrow a feather of my wing.
15 They killed however two swans that were moulting , several cranes and many gray geese.
16 Which being the case, the next thing on their annual agenda is the moulting season.
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