Defn: To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
Thou … doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser.
MOIL Moil, v. i. Etym: [From Moil to daub; prob. from the idea of struggling through the wet.]
Defn: 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.
Defn: A spot; a defilement.
The moil of death upon them. Mrs. Browning.
MOILE
Moile, n. Etym: [F. mule a slipper.]
Defn: A kind of high shoe anciently worn. [Written also moyle.]
MOINEAU
Moi"neau, n. Etym: [F.] (Fort.)
Defn: A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
MOIRA
Moi"ra, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Greek Myth.)