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To boil, or to cause to boil, again.

reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return. Evil on itself shall back recoil. Milton. The solemnity of her demeanor made it impossible . . . that we should recoil into our ordinary spirits. De Quincey.

One who, or that which, recoils.

In the manner of a recoil.

Recoil. [R.]

To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc. , in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

Turbid; as, roily water.

The East Indian name for grass oil. See under Grass.

See Induction coil, under Induction.

An ornamental foliation having seven lobes. Cf. Cinquefoil, Quarterfoil, and Trefoil.

See Septfoil.

(such food having the effect of purging them), to purge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.

A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.

Stain; foulness. [R.] Bacon.

Destitute of soil or mold.

Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson.

Dirty; soiled. [Obs.] Fuller.

An induction coil, esp. of an internal-combustion engine, wireless telegraph apparatus, etc.

To scatter; to spread; to disperse. [Obs.]

by violence; to pillage; to rob; -- with of before the name of the thing taken; as, to spoil one of his goods or possession. "Ye shall spoil the Egyptians." Ex. iii. 22. My sons their old, unhappy sire despise, Spoiled of his kingdom, and deprived of eues. Pope.