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bemoil

verb

Etymology

From be- + moil, from French mouiller to wet; but compare also Old English bimolen to soil, and English mole.

  1. derived from *molliō✻
  2. derived from moillier
  3. inherited from mollen
  4. formed as bemoil — “be- + moil”

Definitions

  1. To soil or dirty

    • Tell thou the tale: –but hadst thou not crossed me, thou shouldst have heard how her horse fell, and she under her horse; thou shouldst have heard, in how miry a place; how she was bemoiled; […].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bemoil. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA