a. Obs.–1 ? Close, sultry.
Perh. an error for sooltry, but cf. Du. zoel, † soel.
1570. Foxe, A. & M. (ed. 2), 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.
