Definition of "soland" []

• A solan goose. (noun)

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• "Islands of the Orcades, in Scotland, there are trees which bear those barnacles, which dropping off into the water, receive life, and become those birds called soland geese."
• "Some call them _clakes_, and _soland geese_, and some puffins; others _bernacles_, because they resemble them."
• "The speed of the bison was outstripped by that of the spirits; the wings of the wild turkey and soland-goose could not convey them out of the reach of the sprightly inhabitants of the City of Souls."