Definition of "soyle" []

• Obsolete spelling of soil. (noun)
• Prey (noun)

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• "Fertile of soyle, well watered with riuers, and springes, and rich with precious balme."
• "The countrie is hilly, and full of woddes, and of a barreine soyle."
• "This Pond was no deeper, then to reach the breast of a man, and having no mud or soyle in it, the bottome thereof shewed like small beaten gravell, with prety pibble stones intermixed, which some that had nothing else to do, would sit downe and count them as they lay, as very easily they might."