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MOIL
moil
(verb) moisten or soil; “Her tears moiled the letter”
churn, boil, moil, roil
(verb) be agitated; “the sea was churning in the storm”
labor, labour, toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig, moil
(verb) work hard; “She was digging away at her math homework”; “Lexicographers drudge all day long”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Verb
moil (third-person singular simple present moils, present participle moiling, simple past and past participle moiled)
To toil, to work hard.
(intransitive) To churn continually; to swirl.
(UK, transitive) To defile or dirty.
Noun
moil (countable and uncountable, plural moils)
Hard work.
Confusion, turmoil.
A spot; a defilement.
Synonyms
• (hard work): labour, labor; toil; work
Etymology 2
Noun
moil (plural moils)
(glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of a blowpipe or punty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of a gather.
(glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed after annealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
(glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.
Synonyms
• (excess glass): overblow (blow molding), scrap
Anagrams
• Milo, limo, milo
Source: Wiktionary
Moil, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moiled; p. pr. & vb. n. Moiling.] Etym: [OE. moillen to wet, OF. moillier, muillier, F. mouller, fr. (assumed) LL. molliare, fr. L. mollis soft. See Mollify.]
Definition: To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile. Thou ... doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser.
Moil, v. i. Etym: [From Moil to daub; prob. from the idea of struggling through the wet.]
Definition: 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, n.
Definition: A spot; a defilement. The moil of death upon them. Mrs. Browning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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