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Webster 1913 Edition


Moil

Moil

,
Verb.
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

,
Verb.
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

,
Noun.
A spot; a defilement.
The
moil
of death upon them.
Mrs. Browning.

Webster 1828 Edition


Moil

MOIL

,
Verb.
T.
To daub; to make dirty. [Little used.]
1.
To weary. [See the next word.]

MOIL

,
Verb.
I.
[Gr. labor, combat; to strive, to fight; L. molior, and miles.] To labor; to toil; to work with painful efforts.
Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.

MOIL

,
Noun.
A spot. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


móil

móil

See also: moil

Irish

Noun

móil m

  1. inflection of mól (mole):
    1. vocative singular
    2. genitive singular
    3. nominative plural
    4. dative plural

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
móil mhóil unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.