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.
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.
Moil, n. A spot; a defilement.
The moil of death upon them.
Mrs. Browning.
Moile (?), n. [F. mule a slipper.] A kind of high shoe anciently worn.
[Written also moyle.]
||Moi"neau (?), n. [F.] (Fort.) A small flat bastion, raised in the
||middle of an overlong curtain.
||Moi"ra (moi"r), n. [NL., fr. Gr. Moi^ra.] (Greek Myth.) The deity who
||assigns to every man his lot.
||Moire (?), n. [F. Cf. Mohair.] 1. Originally, a fine textile fabric
||made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric
||to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.
2. A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either
textile fabrics or metallic surfaces.
Moire antique, a superior kind of thick moire.
||Moi`ré" mé`tal`lique" (?). [F.] A crystalline or frosted appearance
||produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus
||treated.
Moist (?), a. [OE. moiste, OF. moiste, F. moite, fr. L. muccidus, for
mucidus, moldy, musty. Cf. Mucus, Mucid.] 1. Moderately wet; damp;
humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air. "Moist eyes." Shak.
2. Fresh, or new. [Obs.] "Shoes full moist and new." "A draught of
moist and corny ale." Chaucer.
Moist, v. t. To moisten. [Obs.] Shak.
Mois"ten (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Moistened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Moistening.] 1. To make damp; to wet in a small degree.
A pipe a little moistened on the inside.
Bacon.