noun
definition
Hard work.
definition
Confusion, turmoil.
definition
A spot; a defilement.
verb
definition
To toil, to work hard.
definition
To churn continually; to swirl.
definition
To defile or dirty.
Examples of moil in a Sentence
His prince, abating those points which are purely Italian or strongly tinctured with the author's personal peculiarities, prefigured the monarchs of the 16th and 17th centuries, the monarchs whose motto was L'e'tat c' est moil His doctrine of a national militia foreshadowed the system which has given strength in arms to France and Germany.
Did with the aged hermit toil, With their own hands in daily moil, Hard laboring rude the barren soil.
In what is perhaps the most important section we may probably see the origin of the possessory action of moil d'ancestor, an innovation scarcely less striking than the institution of the novel disseisin in the winter of 1166.