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moil
[moil] 
–verb (used without object)
| 1. | to work hard; drudge. |
| 2. | to whirl or churn ceaselessly; twist; eddy. |
–verb (used with object)
| 3. | Archaic. to wet or smear. |
–noun
| 4. | hard work or drudgery. |
| 5. | confusion, turmoil, or trouble. |
| 6. | Glassmaking. a superfluous piece of glass formed during blowing and removed in the finishing operation. |
| 7. | Mining. a short hand tool with a polygonal point, used for breaking or prying out rock. |
Origin:
1350–1400; ME moillen to make or get wet and muddy < MF moillier < VL *molliāre, deriv. of L mollis soft
1350–1400; ME moillen to make or get wet and muddy < MF moillier < VL *molliāre, deriv. of L mollis soft
Related forms:
moiler, noun
moil⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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| moil (moil) intr.v. moiled, moil·ing, moils
[Middle English mollen, to soften by wetting, from Old French moillier, from Vulgar Latin *molliāre, from Latin mollia (pānis), the soft part (of bread), from neuter pl. of mollis, soft; see mel-1 in Indo-European roots.] moil'er n., moil'ing·ly adv. |
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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.Moil
Moil\, n. A spot; a defilement. The moil of death upon them. --Mrs. Browning.
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moil
"to labour in the mire" [Johnson], c.1400, possibly from O.Fr. mouiller "to wet, moisten," from V.L. *molliare, from L. molis "soft."
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