4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moil \Moil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moiled}; p. pr & vb n.
{Moiling}.] [OE. moillen to wet, OF moillier, muillier, F.
mouller, fr (assumed) LL molliare fr L. mollis soft. See
{Mollify}.]
To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil.
--Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moil \Moil\, v. i. [From {Moil} to daub; prob. from the idea of
struggling through the wet.]
To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful
effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
Moil not too much under ground. --Bacon.
Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
--Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moil \Moil\, n.
A spot; a defilement.
The moil of death upon them --Mrs.
Browning.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
moil
v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework" [syn:
{labor}, {labour}, {toil}, {fag}, {travail}, {grind}, {drudge},
{dig}]
2: be agitated; of liquids [syn: {churn}, {boil}, {roil}]
3: moisten or soil: "Her tears moiled the letter"
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