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moth

noun C2
  1. A liver spot, especially an irregular or feathery one. (dated)

Plural moths

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At eight o’clock the next evening Aunt Ellen took a quaint old gold ring from a moth-eaten case and gave it to Richard.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 12 · C1
A small fly or moth had fluttered across our path, and in an instant Stapleton was rushing with extraordinary energy and speed in pursuit of it.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 84 · C1
His grey clothes and jerky, zigzag, irregular progress made him not unlike some huge moth himself.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 84 · C1
I learned at the British Museum that he was a recognized authority upon the subject, and that the name of Vandeleur has been permanently attached to a certain moth which he had, in his Yorkshire days, been the first to describe.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 204 · C1

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