soyle

Obsolete spelling of soil.

Noun alt of, obsolete

  1. Obsolete spelling of soil.
    • And in your planting the consideration of the clymate and of the soyle be matters that are to be respected. - 1598, Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation,...
    • As the good seedes sowen in fruitfull soyle, Bring foorth foyson when barren doeth them spoile: So doeth it fare when much good learning hits, Vpon shrewde willes and ill disposed wits. - 1589, George Puttenham, The...
    • II Now are we come unto my native soyle, 10 And to the place where all our perils dwell; Here haunts that feend, and does his dayly spoyle; Therefore henceforth be at your keeping well,[*] And ever ready for your foeman...

Forms

soyles

Noun obsolete

  1. prey
    • And cruell battell twixt themselves doe make , Whiles neither lets the other touch the soyle - 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

Origin

Compare soil (“to feed”).

Verb

  1. Obsolete form of soil.

Forms

soyles soyling soyled