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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Moil \Moil\, n.
A spot; a defilement.
[1913 Webster]
The moil of death upon them. --Mrs.
Browning.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Moil \Moil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moiled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Moiling.] [OE. moillen to wet, OF. moillier, muillier, F.
mouller, fr. (assumed) LL. molliare, fr. L. mollis soft. See
Mollify.]
To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
[1913 Webster]
Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil.
--Spenser.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Moil \Moil\, v. i. [From Moil to daub; prob. from the idea of
struggling through the wet.]
To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful
effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.
[1913 Webster]
Moil not too much under ground. --Bacon.
[1913 Webster]
Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Moil \Moil\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moiled; p. pr. & vb. n.
Moiling.] [OE. moillen to wet, OF. moillier, muillier, F.
mouller, fr. (assumed) LL. molliare, fr. L. mollis soft. See
Mollify.]
To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil.
--Spenser.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Moil \Moil\, v. i. [From Moil to daub; prob. from the idea of
struggling through the wet.]
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Moil \Moil\, n.
A spot; a defilement.
The moil of death upon them. --Mrs.
Browning.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
moil
v 1: work hard; "She was digging away at her math homework";
"Lexicographers drudge all day long" [syn: labor, labour,
toil, fag, travail, grind, drudge, dig]
2: be agitated; "the sea was churning in the storm" [syn: churn,
boil, roil]
3: moisten or soil; "Her tears moiled the letter"
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
moil
Scottish Gaelic n.
(inflection of gd mol gen)
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
Moil
n.
(synonym of en Ngan'gityemerri)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
moil
n.
Hard work.
vb.
To toil, to work hard.
n.
1 (lb en 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.
2 (lb en 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).
3 (lb en glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has
adhered to a glass object.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
Moil
n.
(synonym of en Ngan'gityemerri)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
moil
Scottish Gaelic n.
(inflection of gd mol gen)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
Moil
n.
(synonym of en Ngan'gityemerri)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
moil
Scottish Gaelic n.
(inflection of gd mol gen)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
Moil
n.
(synonym of en Ngan'gityemerri)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]
Moil /mˈɔɪl/
إكدح
From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
moil //mɔɪl//
тежка работа
hard work
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
moil /mˈɔɪl/
dřina
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
moil /mˈɔɪl/
Absprengkappe , Blaskappe , Kappe
Note: Glaserzeugung
see: moils
Note: glassmaking
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
moil /mˈɔɪl/
[archaic] schwer arbeiten, schuften, rackern
Synonyms: work hard, labour, labor, slave away, toil, toil away, drudge, travail
see: working hard, labouring, laboring, slaving away, toiling, toiling away, moiling, drudging, travailing, worked hard, laboured, labored, slaved away, toiled, toiled away, moiled, drudged, travailed
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
moil /mˈɔɪl/
1. çalışıp didinmek, çok zor işle uğraşmak
2. ağır iş
3. karışıklık, kargaşa, gürültü.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
119 Moby Thesaurus words for "moil":
agitation, be turbulent, bluster, bobbery, boil, boiling, brouhaha,
bubble, bustle, churn, clamor, commotion, conturbation, dig,
dirty work, discomposure, disorder, disquiet, disquietude,
disturbance, donkeywork, drive, drudge, drudgery, ebullition,
embroilment, employment, excitement, fag, fatigue, ferment,
fermentation, fever, feverishness, fidgets, flap, flurry, fluster,
flutteration, foment, fume, fuss, grind, grub, hammer, hammer away,
handiwork, handwork, hubbub, hurly-burly, industry, inquietude,
jitters, jumpiness, labor, lather, lick, lick of work, maelstrom,
malaise, manual labor, mill, mill around, nerviness, nervosity,
nervousness, peg, peg away, perturbation, plod, plug, plug along,
plug away, plugging, pound away, rat race, restlessness, roil,
rout, row, ruction, scut work, seethe, seething, simmer, slavery,
slog, slogging, smolder, spadework, stir, strain, strive, stroke,
stroke of work, sweat, swirl, task, tiresome work, to-do, toil,
travail, treadmill, trepidation, trepidity, tug, tumult,
tumultuation, turbidity, turbulence, turmoil, twitter, unease,
unrest, uproar, upset, wade through, work, work away
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
v. 辛劳工作,忙碌工作,不断动摇;
n. 辛苦,劳苦,费劲;
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
vi. 辛劳工作,忙碌工作,不断动摇
n. 辛苦,劳苦,费劲
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