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Solder, meaning Soldier.
There are others in this part of the register, and the spelling of some of the other occupations is also a bit wayward.
Agree with horselydown86.
The first letter is an I (but that often stood for a J). The middle letter that almost looks like a w is an r.
Jehoram or Joram was the ninth king of the northern Kingdom of Israel - so very biblical!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehoram_of_Israel
It is Julian, as transcribed by Ancestry. There's nothing unusual in Julian being a girl's name in the C16th.
Looking at the image on Ancestry the father's forename is definitely Joram.
It could well be a variant spelling of Jerom.
Do you have an idea what the daughters name could be?
Found this :- James, porter in Lady Yester's p., and Isobel, d. to Alexander Stewart, farmer in p. of Kinmarie, now in New Kirk p. 18 Nov. 1770
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Yester%27s_Kirk
Don't know if it helps or not.
Malky
I got rather carried away but the will might be useful hopefully
Kay
Mention of his wife might also be useful https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Women_and_Work_in_Eighteenth_Century_Edi/8wexCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=john+polson+advocate+edinburgh&pg=PA210&printsec=frontcover
Plus poss birth in Inverness in 1699 on Scotlands People - parents John Polson and Elspet Mcbean
Kay