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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[AS.

foxes-glōfa

foxes-clōfa

foxes-clife

(Bot.)

Any plant of the genus

Digitalis

. The common English foxglove (

Digitalis purpurea

) is a handsome perennial or biennial plant, whose leaves are used as a powerful medicine, both as a sedative and diuretic. See

Pan through the pastures oftentimes hath run
To pluck the speckled

foxgloves

from their stem.

W. Browne.

Noun.

The name of a plant, the Digitalis.