soyl

Updated: May 31, 2025

The very bruit animals make themselves beds of rosemary, and other fragrant flowers hereabouts; and when one is at sea, if the winde blow from the shore, he may smell this soyl before he comes in sight of it, many leagues off, by the strong odoriferous scent it casts.

Washington Irving - Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists