Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Obsolete forms of soul, sole.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To pull by the ears; to drag about.
  • intransitive verb obsolete See soul, v. i.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Archaic spelling of soul.
  • noun A relish; sauce; dainty; anything eaten with bread.
  • noun Tasty, seasoned food.
  • noun Pottage; moist, liquid food.
  • noun Any liquid that is drunk.

Etymologies

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From Middle English sowle, sawle ("soul"). More at soul.

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From Middle English sovel, suvel, saulee, from Old English sufl, sufel, sufol ("anything eaten with bread, sowl, relish eaten with bread"), from Proto-Germanic *suflan (“entremets, viands”), from Proto-Indo-European *seu-, *sew- (“juice, moisture, rain”). Cognate with Eastern Frisian süfel ("dairy products"), Dutch zuivel ("dairy products"), Middle Low German suvel, süvel, suffel ("sowl"), Danish sul ("sowl"), Swedish sovel ("sowl").

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  • (Brit.) To pull by the ears; to drag about.

    May 13, 2008

  • Original spelling of soul.

    July 1, 2009