† soolyadj.
Obsolete. rare.
? Close, sultry. Perhaps an error for sooltry, but cf. Dutch zoel, †soel.
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1570 J. Foxe tr. Pomponius Algerius Let. in Actes & Monuments (rev. ed.) II. 1071/2 The soolye heat of ye prison, to me is coldnes: the colde wynter to me is a freshe spryng tyme in the Lord.
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