Sc. Also 7 fochsterrie, fox trie. The foxglove (Digitalis purpurea).
1623. in Pitcairn, Crim. Trials Scot., II. 538. Issobell confessit, that scho … send furth hir sone to gether fochsterrie leaweis.
1636. in Dalyell’s Darker Superst. Scotl. (1831), 113. Ane drink of fox trie leaves or not.
1818. Hogg, Wool-gatherer, in Brownie of Bodsbeck, etc., II. 183. They’ll [the fairies] hae to pit on their pollonians o’ the pale colour o’ the fair day-light, that the e’e o’ Christian maunna see them; or gang away an’ sleep in their dew-cups an’ foxter-leaves till the gloaming come again.
