A minute fungus or other vegetable growth of a low type, especially one of such vegetable organisms as appear on articles of food when left neglected, decaying matter, bodies which lie long in warm and damp air, animal and vegetable tissues, etc.; in a somewhat looser sense, mustiness or incipient decay, Form; shape; cast; character, A frame or model around or on which something is formed or shaped, intransitive verb_ To become mold, To guide or determine the growth or development of; influence, To assume a certain shape