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Foxes glófa

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1 foxes glófa

m. [foxes clófa MS. B.] Foxglove; digĭtālis purpŭrea, Lin :-- Wið óman genim ðysse wyrte leáf ðe man GREEK, 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. foxglove. The leechdoms here recorded seem derived from what Dioskorides says of the GREEK: namely, GREEK; and so on of GREEK and GREEK and GREEK. [ifoxglove. foxes glofa
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ᚠᚩᚳᛋᛖᛋ ᚷᛚᚩᚠᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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Fox
Fox, Samuel (Modern English translator of Boethius)
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