Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bedraggle; bemire; soil or encumber with mire and dirt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.

Etymologies

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

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  • "Art drooping under thy load, bemoiled with butcher's bills at home and ingots (not thine!) in the countinghouse?"

    Joyce, Ulysses, 14

    January 27, 2007