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Capable of being spoiled.

One who spoils; a plunderer; a pillager; a robber; a despoiler.

if no player wins three of the five tricks possible on any deal, the game is said to be spoiled.

Wasteful; rapacious. [Poetic]

One who serves a cause or a party for a share of the spoils; in United States politics, one who makes or recognizes a demand for public office on the ground of partisan service; also, one who sanctions such a policy in appointments to the public service.

One who promises or distributes public offices and their emoluments as the price of services to a party or its leaders.

The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil. Subsoil plow, a plow having a share and standard but no moldboard. It follows in the furrow made by an ordinary plow, and loosens the soil to an additional depth without bringing it to the surface. Knight.

A transformer without iron, for high frequency alternating or oscillating currents; an oscillation transformer.

aking prey; -- usually in the plural. As a Numidian lion, when first caught, Endures the toil that holds him. Denham. Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found. Dryden.

One who toils, or labors painfully.

Act or mode of dressing, or that which is arranged in dressing; attire; dress; as, her toilet is perfect. [Written also toilette.] Toilet glass, a looking-glass for a toilet table or for a dressing room. -- Toilet service, Toilet set, earthenware, glass, and other utensils for a dressing room. -- Toilet table, a dres…

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Producing or involving much toil; laborious; toilsome; as, toilful care. Mickle.

A cloth, the weft of which is of woolen yarn, and the warp of cotton and silk, -- used for w

Free from toil.

Attended with toil, or fatigue and pain; laborious; wearisome; as, toilsome work. What can be toilsome in these pleasant walks Milton. -- Toil"some*ly, adv. -- Toil"some*ness, n.

The upper layer of soil; surface soil.

The act or art of taking off the top soil of land before an excavation or embankment is begun.

Oil procured from the blubber or fat of whales, by boiling.

An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.