MOULE

(Fr.), n. Mul. See MOLD and CAST (1st def.). The_orie des m's iiiterieurs (de Bufl'on). A fanciful theory by which Buffon accounted for the resemblance of the foetus to its parents. Each parent was considered as a mold for the reception of moving organic molecules, the product of digestion and a imilation. These molecules went to add to the growth of the body until it had attained its full development, after which, being still constantly produced, they went to form the seminal liquor in the two sexes. When impregnation occurred, they congregated in the uterus or in the egg, and, as was natural to them, arranged themselves in the same order that they would have taken in the parental organism if they had not been so diverted. [A, 4.] MOULT, [s. 34]