Etymology: < moil v.In English regional form mooil showing formal overlap with mool n.

Etymology: Probably < mule n.¹ (see variant forms s.v.) in sense ‘hybrid’ (compare slightly later sense 4b s.v.). Compare genet-moyle n., and also the following:1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 47 The farina of the pippin was introduced to the flower of the Siberian crab, whereby a mule was produced.

Etymology: Partly < Irish maol bald, hornless and partly < Welsh moel bald, beardless, both < a Celtic base ( > Early Irish mael , Cornish mol , Breton moal ) of uncertain etymology. Compare earlier moiled adj.², moiley n., and moulleen n. See also mule n.³, mull n.⁵ and muley n.¹

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < a surname, or perhaps < moil v.

Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps < French meule piece of glass left on a blowing iron after the article blown with it has been detached (1765), spec. technical sense (with reference to the rotatory motion involved) of meule millstone (see mullet n.³).

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman moiller, mouller, muiller to wet, to steep, to pester, harass, and Middle French moiller, moillier to soak, moisten, stain, wet, to drench (oneself), to become wet (c1050 in Old French as moiler ; French mouiller : compare mouillé adj.) and their etymon post-classical Latin molliare to moisten (1291 in a British source, 1363 in Chauliac) < classical Latin mollia , use as noun (e.g. in mollia pānis soft part of bread) of neuter plural of mollis soft (see moll adj. and n.¹). Compare post-classical Latin molliare to soften (6th cent.), variant of classical Latin mollīre (see mollient adj.). Compare Old Occitan molhar , moillar (12th cent.), Occitan molhar , Catalan mullar (13th cent.), Spanish mojar (1270). With sense 2 compare turmoil v. 3. Compare maul v.²