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casque|kɑːsk, -æ-|
[a. F. casque, ad. Sp. casco in same sense: see cask n.]
1. A piece of armour to cover the head; a helmet. A term applied very loosely to all kinds of military head-pieces, and now only historical, poetical, or foreign. Formerly written cask.
1580–1649 [see cask n. 4]. 1696Phillips, Casque, a helmet. 1714Gay Trivia iii. 363 The fireman sweats beneath his crooked arms, A leathern casque his vent'rous head defends. 1791Cowper Iliad iii. 375 They shook them in a brazen casque. 1842Tennyson Galahad 1 My good blade carves the casques of men. 1877Daily News 24 Dec. 5/4 The mitre-like casques of the Pauloff Guard regiment.
2. transf.
a. Bot. The upper lip of the corolla of certain Labiatæ; also the upper division of the perigone of orchids.
b. Zool. A helmet-like structure, as in the cassowary, the toucans.
1790R. Bland in Med. Commun. II. 456 A very small part of the bony casque. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. iv. 43 The casque or upper lip arched in order to cover the rest of the flower. 1871Darwin Desc. Man II. xiii. 72 In Buceros corrugatus, the whole beak and immense casque are coloured more conspicuously in the male.
†3. (See quot.)
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Casque, in natural history, a name given to a kind of murex, called the helmet-shell. |