anoil

English

Etymology

From Old French enoilier.

Verb

anoil (third-person singular simple present anoils, present participle anoiling, simple past and past participle anoiled)

1. (obsolete) To anoint with oil.
   • 1577, Raphaell Holinshed, The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC:

     Children were also christened, and men houseled and anoiled

References

• “anoil”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Ilona, Laino, aloin