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verb

Roil v. t. (past & past part. roiled; pres. part. roiling)

To render turbid by stirring up the dregs or sediment of; as, to roil wine, cider, etc., in casks or bottles; to roil a spring.

To disturb, as the temper; to ruffle the temper of; to rouse the passion of resentment in; to perplex. "That his friends should believe it, was what roiled him (Judge Jeffreys) exceedingly." Note: Provincial in England and colloquial in the United States. A commoner, but less approved, form is rile.

Roil v. i.

To wander; to roam. (Obs.)

To romp. (Prov. Eng.)

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"Roil" Quotes from Famous Books

... a fright," said Kitty standing up and talking half to herself and half for the benefit of the head-mistress. "Crying always spoils me. Now, I knew a girl at home, and the more she cried the prettier she got. She used to let her tears roil down her cheeks in great drops, and never attempted to wipe them away, and her nose never got red, and her eyes only got bigger and quite dewy. Now, as to me when ...

— Wild Kitty • L. T. Meade

... varacity that this singlar story of rewmantic love, absobbing pashn, and likewise of GENTEEL LIFE, is, in the main fax, TREW. The suckmstanzas I elude to, ocurd in the rain of our presnt Gratious Madjisty and her beluvd and roil Concert ...

— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray

... "Don't roil up," interrupted the gambler. "I don't even know what the fight was about, and I don't care a tinker's whoop either. I got you here to give you a chance to put Van Buren out of commission ...

— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels

... mout be a-makin' a false play, but—durn the critter anyway, Shane! He ain't got no more backbone than a wet string! He's been in a hell of a stew ever since we got here about this storm a-brewing and it's beginnin' to roil me just havin' him pesticate around. ...

— Where the Sun Swings North • Barrett Willoughby

... Break, ah break it out o' that! Break our starboard bower out, apeak, awash, and clear. Port—port she casts, with the harbour-roil beneath her foot, And that's the last o' bottom ...

— The Seven Seas • Rudyard Kipling