Thesaurus: moil
To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
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Definitions
- v. t. To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
- v. i. To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
- n. A spot; a defilement.
- v. work hard
- v. be agitated
- v. moisten or soil
- To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile. Thou ... doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser. 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. A spot; a defilement. The moil of death upon them. Mrs. Browning.
- To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.Thou ... doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser.