Sc. Also 59 fulye, 6 fulȝe, 9 fulzie, foolyie. [var. of FOIL sb.1]
† 1. A leaf. Obs.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, XII. Prol. 89. Euery faill Ourfret with fulȝeis of figuris full diuers.
1819. W. Tennant, Papistry Stormd (1827), 113. Sae thick they [Bees] owr the fulȝies stalk.
2. Gold-leaf.
c. 1450. Golagros & Gaw., 939. The fulye of the fyne gold fell in the feild.
1488. in Ld. Treas. Accts. Scotl. (1877), I. 85. Item, a buke with levis of gold, with xiij levis of gold fulȝe.
180880. Jamieson, Fulye 2. Leaf gold We still use fulye in the same sense, without the addition of the term gold.