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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.
1.
To weary. [See the next word.]MOIL
,Verb.
I.
Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
MOIL
,Noun.
Definition 2024
móil
móil
See also: moil
Irish
Noun
móil m
- inflection of mól (“mole”):
- vocative singular
- genitive singular
- nominative plural
- 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. | ||