[f. SOIL v.1] That stains or soils; polluting, defiling.
1812. Cary, Dante, Purg., XXX. 52. To save My undew’d cheeks from blur of soiling tears.
1820. Clare, Poems Rural Life (ed. 3), 120. From soiling dew the butter-cup Shuts his golden jewels up.
1876. Geo. Eliot, Dan. Der., lxvii. Dreading the soiling inferences of his mind.
