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▪ I. † houve, hoove Obs. or Sc.
Forms: 1 húfe, 3–4 houue, 4 houwe, howue, houe, 4–8 Sc. hou, how, 5 houffe, howfe, huve, 6 hove, hooue, 8–9 Sc. hoo.
[OE. húfe = MLG., MDu. hûve, Du. huif, OHG. hûba (MHG. hûbe, Ger. haube), ON. húfa (Sw. hufva, Da. hue):—OTeut. *hūƀōn wk. fem.]
A covering for the head; a turban, a coif; a cap, a skull-cap; the quilted skull-cap worn under a helmet; in Sc. (how, hoo) a night-cap (Jam.).
to glaze one's houve, give him a houve of glass or glasen houve: to mock, delude, cajole. See Skeat Chaucer, Notes to C.T. p. 237.
c1000ælfric Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 152/24 Cidaris, uel mitra, hufe. c1050Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. ibid. 188/20 Flammeolum, uel flammeum, biscopes huf. a1300Body & Soul 246 in Map's Poems (Camden) 337 Tou..madest me an houue of glas. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 84 Þer houeþ an Hundret In Houues of selk, Seriauns hit semeþ to seruen atte Barre. c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 726 (775) To holde in love a man in honde, And him hir ‘leef’ and ‘dere herte’ calle, And maken him an howve above a calle. Ibid. v. 469 Fortune his howue entendeth bet to glaze. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Adrian 228 Þu did nocht ellis, I se now, Bot to god mad a clasine [= glasine] how. Ibid., Ninian 1046 He ves hynt be how and hayre. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xx. 171 A glasen houve. c1386Chaucer Reeve's Prol. 57, I pray yow alle that ye nat yow greue Thogh I answere and somdeel sette his howue [v. rr. howe, houve, houwe]. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 56 To be my frend, and gyve me false counsaile, To breke myn hede, and yeve me a houffe. c1440Promp. Parv. 249/2 Howe..heed hyllynge. 1483Cath. Angl. 190/2 An Howfe, tena. 1513Douglas æneis v. x. 22 Thair haris all..That..with how and helm wes thristit down. 1535Coverdale Isa. iii. 18 Bracelettes and hooues. ― Judith xvi. 8 She anoynted hir face, and bounde vp hir hayre in an hooue. 1721Kelly Scott. Prov. 61 Break my head, and put on my hoo.
b. A child's caul.
1530Palsgr. 233/1 Hove that a chylde is borne in, taye. 1616Roberts Treat. Witchcr. 66 (Jam.) That natural couer wherewith some children are borne, and is called by our women the sillie how. 1646Sir. T. Browne Pseud. Ep. v. xxi. 269. 1710 Ruddiman Gloss. Douglas' æneis s.v. How, In Scotland the women call a haly or sely How (i.e. holy or fortunate cap or hood), a film or membrane stretched over the heads of Children new born.
▪ II. houve
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