molder UK /ˈməʊldə/US /ˈmoʊldəɹ/noun 7verb 5forms 3 noun7 •A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc. •An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects. •(figurative) A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper. •A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker. •(no longer used) A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread. •(no longer used) Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.[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; […] — 1592 •(no longer used, rare) 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”) verb5 •(Scotland) Often followed by away or down: to cause (something) to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces. •Often followed by away: to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.To them [the Muses] Great WILLIAM's Glory to recal / VVhen Statues moulder, and vvhen Arches fall. — 1700 •(figurative) To die away, to disappear.As to those offerd condescensions of Charitable connivence, or toleration, if vve consider vvhat vvent before, and vvhat follovvs, they moulder into nothing. — 1649 •(figurative, no longer used) To cause (someone or something) to die away or disappear.How many men have we seen moulder and crumble away great estates, and yet pay no debts? — 1632 •(figurative, no longer used) Often followed by away: of a group of people (especially an army): to diminish in number; to dwindle.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; […] — 1711 formsmoldered · moldering · molders