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foxes glófa

  • noun [ masculine ]
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foxes glófa, an; m. [foxes clófa MS. B.]
Foxglove; digĭtālis purpŭrea, Lin
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  • Wið óman genim ðysse wyrte leáf ðe man στρύχνος μανικός, and oðrum naman foxes glófa [MS. foxes clófa] nemneþ

    for inflammatory sores, take leaves of this wort, which is named sōlānum insānum or Sodŏmeum, and by another name foxglove,

    • Herb. 144
      • ;
    • Lchdm. i. 266, 18.
Mr. Cockayne says, in note b on this passage,—'Strychnos manikos is Sōlānum insānum or Sodŏmeum fairly drawn,
  • MS. V. fol. 60 a
, not an English plant, and certainly not foxglove. The leechdoms here recorded seem derived from what Dioskorides says of the στρύχνος κηπαῖος: namely, τὰ φύλλα καταπλασσόμενα ἁρμόζει πρὸς ἐρυσιπέλατα καὶ ἕρπητας; and so on of κεφαλαλγία and στόμαχος καυσούμενος and ὠταλγία. [iv. 71].'
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v. clifwyrt foxglove.
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Bosworth, Joseph. “foxes glófa.” In An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Online, edited by Thomas Northcote Toller, Christ Sean, and Ondřej Tichy. Prague: Faculty of Arts, Charles University, 2014. https://bosworthtoller.com/12107.

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