silly-how

noun

noun

Etymology From silly, seely + early form of houve.

Archaic, Dialectal The caul which sometimes envelops the top of a child's head after birth.

Great conceits are raised of the involution or meembranous covering, commonly called the silly-how, that sometimes is found about the heads of children upon their birth, and is therefore preserved with great care […]1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:

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