Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Moil

Moil , transitive verb

[Old English moillen to wet, Old French moillier, muillier, French mouller, from (assumed) Late Latin molliare, from Latin mollis soft. See Mollify.]

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

Moil , intransitive verb

[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 , noun

A spot; a defilement.
The moil of death upon them. — Mrs. Browning