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▪ I. kell Obs. exc. dial.|kɛl|
Also 4–6 kelle, 7 kel.
[A northern form corresp. to ME. calle, caul n.1; the difference in vowel is not easy to account for, but cf. mell, Sc. form of maul, mall.]
1. A woman's hair-net, cap, or head-dress: = caul n.1 1.
a1400Pistill of Susan 128 (MS. A) By a wynliche welle Susan cast of hir kelle. Ibid. 158 (MS. I) Þan had sche kast of hire kell and hire courcheffe. 1513Douglas æneis vii. xiv. 82 The hair was of this damysell Knyt wyth a buttoune in a goldin kell. 1603Philotus xxii, Than may ȝe haue baith Quaiffis and Kellis..All for ȝour weiring and not ellis. a1700Childe Maurice v. in Child Ballads (1886) iv. lxxxiii. 264/2 As many times As knotts beene knitt on a kell. 1817Lady Margaret in Whitelaw Bk. Scot. Ball. (1875) 55/2 To braid her hair she didna care Nor sett her golden kell.
b. dial. The back part of a woman's cap.
1871W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xlvi. (1873) 256 A mutch that my wife hed ance wi' a byous muckle squar' kell.
2. A long cloak or garment; a shroud.
c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 656/15 Hec caracalla, kelle. [Cf. ibid. 571/34 Caracalla, a sclavayn or a cope.] a1800Gay Goss-Hawk xxx. in Child Ballads (1886) iv. xcvi E. 364/2 Then up and gat her seven sisters, And sewed to her a kell, And every steek that they pat in Sewd to a siller bell.
3. Gossamer threads forming a kind of film on grass. Cf. caul 3.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §54 Also there wyll be many kelles vppon the grasse, and that causeth the myldewe. 1576Turberv. Venerie 76 Many tymes the cobwebbes fall from the skye and are not suche as spyders make, but a kind of kell. 1614Markham Cheap Husb. i. iii. i. (1623) 107 Those webs, kels, and flakes..lying on the earth, and a sheep licking them vp, do breed rottennesse. 1663J. Beal Let. to Boyle 9 Nov., Boyle's Wks. 1772 VI. 357 Those kells, which like cobwebs do sometimes cover the grounds.
b. The web or cocoon of a spinning caterpillar.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. iii. 42 Trees..With caterpillers kells, and duskie cobwebs hong. 1616B. Jonson Devil an Ass ii. vi, [Love could] Bury himselfe in euery Silke⁓wormes Kell.
4. Anat. An investing membrane or film: = caul 4.
1540T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde i. ii. (1634) 19 The fleshy skinne..is compassed of fleshinesse, more then any other kell or skin in all the body. 1630Drayton Noah's Flood Wks. 1538 note, The aspick hath a kell of skin which covereth his teeth until it be angry. 1766Chron. in Ann. Reg. 120/1 She..has a speck or kell over one eye.
fig.1823Galt R. Gilhaize I. 271 She was soon scrapit of all the scurf and kell of her abominations.
5. spec.
a. The fatty membrane investing the intestines; the omentum: = caul 5 a.
1578Banister Hist. Man v. 67 We call one part of the Kell the Anteriour or superiour Membran, and the other the inferiour or posteriour. 1611Beaum. & Fl. Philaster v. iv, I'le have him cut to the kell, then down the seames. 1694Motteux Rabelais v. xvii, The inner thin Kell wherewith the Intrails are cover'd. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Kell, the omentum or caul. 1877in N.W. Linc. Gloss.
b. The amnion inclosing the fœtus, and sometimes enveloping the head at birth: = caul 5 b.
1530Palsgr. 235/2 Kell in a womans belly, taye. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iii. ii. i, A silly jealous fellow..seeing his childe new born included in a kell, thought sure a Franciscan..was the father of it, it was so like the Frier's Coule. 1828Craven Dial. s.v., Brand mentions several advertisements in which these kells or cauls were announced for sale. 1883in N.W. Linc. Gloss. s.v., Oor ohd mare, she foal'd e' th' neet, an' th' foal could n't braak th' kell, so it was droonded.
6. Comb. (sense 1), as kell-knitter, kell-maker, kell-wise.
a1400–50Alexander 3300 Þis coppis opon kell-wyse knytt in þe woȝes. 14..Nominale in Wr.-Wülcker 692/35 Hec reciaria, a kelmaker. 1483Cath. Angl. 201/2 A kelle knytter, reticularius, reticularia.
Hence kelled († keld) a., webbed.
1630Drayton Noah's Flood Wks. 1534 The otter..feeds on fish, which..He with his keld feet and keen teeth doth kill.
▪ II. kell
obs. form of kale, kiln. |