Moil : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Moil	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Moil
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
moil v work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework"; "Lexicographers drudge all day long" Synonym(s): labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" Synonym(s): churn, boil, moil, roil moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter"
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.