bemoil

English

Etymology

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

Verb

bemoil (third-person singular simple present bemoils, present participle bemoiling, simple past and past participle bemoiled)

  1. (obsolete) To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.
    • 1594, William Shakespeare The Taming of the Shrew Act IV, Scene I.
      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; ... .

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for bemoil in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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