[syn: churn, boil, moil, roil]
3. moisten or soil;
- Example: "Her tears moiled the letter"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Moil \Moil\, n.
A spot; a defilement.
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The moil of death upon them. --Mrs.
Browning.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
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, moil]
2: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn:
churn, boil, moil, roil]
3: moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter"