silly-how
English edit
Etymology edit
From silly, seely + early form of houve.
Noun edit
silly-how (plural silly-hows)
- (now rare, dialectal) The caul which sometimes envelopes the top of a child's head after birth.
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:
- 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 […]