Word Meanings - MOIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile. Thou ... doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to MOIL)

• DEFILE
  To march off in a line, file by file; to file off.
• DEFILEMENT
  The protection of the interior walls of a fortification from an enfilading fire, as by covering them, or by a high parapet on the exposed side.
• DIRTY
  1. Defiled with dirt; foul; nasty; filthy; not clean or pure; serving to defile; as, dirty hands; dirty water; a dirty white. Spenser. 2. Sullied; clouded; -- applied to color. Locke. 3. Sordid; base; groveling; as, a dirty fellow. The creature's
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DEFILER
  One who defiles; one who corrupts or violates; that which pollutes.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.