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The word is not attested otherwise, but its content suggests a fragrant plant (‘de bon odour’). The manuscript reading is in two words (‘toist oilz’) the first of which may be a corruption of
cost1 (‘costmary’). See also
toyseal.
toistoil (c.1300 (?))