v. [UN-2 3, 5, 7.]
1. trans. To destroy the mold or form of.
1611. Cotgr., Demouler, to vnmould: breake the mould,… spoyle the frame, of.
1634. Milton, Comus, 529. His baneful cup.. Whose pleasing poison The visage quite transforms of him that drinks,… unmoulding reasons mintage Character’d in the face.
[1745. Warton. Pleas. Melancholy, 89. That charmed cup, which Reason’s mintage fair Unmoulds.]
1797. Coleridge, Dungeon, 18. So he lies Circled with evil, til; his very soul Unmoulds its essence.
1826. [see DISLIMN v. 1].
b. To take out of a mold.
c. 1900. Century Cook Bk., 493 (Cent. Suppl.). To unmold creams. Ibid. The unmolding of creams requires great care.
2. intr. or absol. To lose form or shape.
1834. De Quincey, Autob. Sk., Wks. 1854, II. 223. The restless elements of opinion … mould themselves eternally,… and finally unmould and ‘dislimn.’
