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moise, v. dial.|mɔɪz|
Also 8 moys.
intr. To thrive; to increase, improve, mend.
1787W. Marshall Norfolk (1795) II. 384 To Moys, to thrive; spoken of crops and stock: also in a general sense, as ‘he muddles on but does not moys’. 1791Gentl. Mag. LXI. ii. 1022 It is a common saying among the common people of this place [Norwich] when a person does not seem to recruit after a fit of illness, or when he does not thrive in the world, that such an one does not moise. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Moise v. to mend, improve, increase, &c. 1860E. Gillett Song Sol. in Norf. Dial. vi. 11 To see wuther the wine-trees moised, and the pomegranates blowed. |