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