Definitions for: Moil


[v] moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter"
[v] be agitated; of liquids
[v] work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.


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.


Moil, n.
A spot; a defilement.

The moil of death upon them. --Mrs.
Browning.

Synonyms: boil, churn, dig, drudge, fag, grind, labor, labour, roil, toil, travail

See Also: do work, move, roll, seethe, smear, work

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