Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MOIL, v.i. [Gr. μολος, μωλος, labor, combat; μωλεω, to strive, to fight; L. molior, and miles; Ar. عَمِلَ amila, to work, labor, perform, to strive, to war; Heb. Ch. Syr. and Sam. עמל, id. Class Ml, No. 15, 12.]

To labor; to toil; to work with painful efforts. Now be must moil and drudge for one he lothes. Dryden.