TOIL, v.i. To labor; to work; to exert strength with pain and fatigue of body or mind, particularly of the body, with efforts of some continuance or duration.

Master, we have toiled all night and caught nothing. Luke 5.

, v.t. To toil out, to labor; to work out.

Toil'd out my uncouth passage--

1. To weary; to overlabor; as toil'd with works of war.

A net or snare; any thread, web or string spread for taking prey.

A fly falls into the toils of a spider.