Sowle vs Soyle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between sowle and soyle

is that sowle is while soyle is or soyle can be (obsolete) prey.

sowle

English

Noun

(en noun)

* {{quote-book, year=1823, author=Giles Gossip, title=Coronation Anecdotes, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The archbishop made the "proclamacion on the iiij quarters of the scaffolde, seyend in this wyse: Sirs, heere comyth Henry, kyng Henryes sone the Vth, on whose sowle God have mercy, Amen. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1882-89, author=, title=A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Beleeve mee nowe, I do not blame my frende To fishe in trobled streames for such a pearle, Or digge in black mowled for so ritch a myne; But to redeeme a chast and inocent sowle Forthe from the fierye jawes of lust and hell, Exprest a most comended charitye. }}

Anagrams

soyle

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)

*{{quote-book, year=1598, author=Richard Hakluyt, title=The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=And in your planting the consideration of the clymate and of the soyle be matters that are to be respected. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1589, author=George Puttenham, title=The Arte of English Poesie, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1590, author=, title=Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I, chapter=, edition=1921 ed. citation

, passage=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 fell. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1638, author=John Wilkins, title=The Discovery of a World in the Moone, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Keplar'' thinkes that our earth receives that light whereby it shines from the Sunne, but this (saith he) is not such an intended cleare brightnesse as the Moone is capable of, and therefore hee guesses, that the earth there is of a more chokie soyle like the Ile of ''Creete , and so is better able to reflect a stronger light, whereas our earth must supply this intention with the quantity of its body, but this I conceive to be a needlesse conjecture, since our earth if all things were well considered, will be found able enough to reflect as great a light. }}

Etymology 2

Compare (soil) to feed.

Noun

(obsolete) prey

(Spenser)

(Webster 1913)