A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Sokstrie, adj. or n. (?) —1650 Brechin Presb. 51.
[She] confessed … that she was the death of two of her own bairnes, the one being overlayed be her and to the other shee gave a drink of the sokstrie leaf … by the which drink her child died
