= prec. (sense 1).
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., V. iii. 237. It … is … delivered by many, that Cicades are bred out of Cuccow spittle or Woodseare.
1664. Power, Exp. Philos., I. 28. That spumeous froth or dew which here in the North we call Cuckow-Spittle, and, in the South, Woodsear.
1880. Baring-Gould, Mehalah, xiii. (1884), 185. If on a May morning you rub your eyes with cuckoo spittle, you see things invisible before, the fairies in the hoes dancing and feasting, [etc.].
