moil

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

MOIL, verb transitive To daub; to make dirty. [Little used.] 1. To weary. [See the next word.] MOIL, verb intransitive [Gr. labor, combat; to strive, to fight; Latin molior, and miles.] To labor; to toil; to work with painful efforts. Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes. MOIL, noun A spot. [Not in use.]
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