MOIL

v. n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile. Thou ... doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser.

2.
v.

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.

3.
n.

A spot; a defilement. The moil of death upon them. Mrs. Browning.

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