Found 2 items, similar to Moil.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: moil
moil
v 1: work hard;
“She was digging away at her math homework”;
“Lexicographers drudge all day long” [syn:
labor,
labour,
toil,
fag,
travail,
grind,
drudge,
dig]
2: be agitated;
“the sea was churning in the storm” [syn:
churn,
boil,
roil]
3: moisten or soil;
“Her tears moiled the letter”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Moil
Moil
\Moil\, n.
A spot; a defilement.
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The moil of death upon them. --Mrs.
Browning.
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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.
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Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil.
--Spenser.
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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.
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Moil not too much under ground. --Bacon.
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Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
--Dryden.
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