moil. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

moil

PRONUNCIATION:	moil
INTRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: moiled, moil·ing, moils 1. To toil; slave. 2. To churn about continuously.
NOUN:	1. Toil; drudgery. 2. Confusion; turmoil.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English mollen, to soften by wetting, from Old French moillier, from Vulgar Latin ^*mollire, from Latin mollia (pnis), the soft part (of bread), from neuter pl. of mollis, soft. See mel-¹ in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	moiler —NOUN moiling·ly —ADVERB


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