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Quotation dates: 1818
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†FOXTERLEAVES, n.pl. The foxglove, Digitalis purpurea, or, more correctly, its leaves.Slk. 1818 Hogg Wool-gatherer (1874) 77:
The bogles will be obliged to thraw aff their black claes now . . . or gang away an' sleep in their dew-cups an' foxter-leaves till the gloaming come again.
