1. Sc. The devil.
1821. Galt, Ann. Parish, xlix. 384. All this running here and riding there as if the littlegude was at his heels. Ibid. (1822), Entail, II. 284. The mim maidens now-a-days hae delivered themselves up to the Little-gude in the shape and glamour o’ novelles and Thomson’s Seasons.
2. dial. The sun-spurge, Euphorbia Helioscopia. Also the sour dock, Rumex acetosa.
1808–80. in Jamieson.
1831. W. Patrick, Plants Lanark., 210. Sun Spurge, Euphorbia Helioscopia.… Called Devil’s Kirnstaff and Little-good.
1876. Hardwicke’s Science Gossip, 39. Rumex acetosa gets [the name of] ‘little guid.’
