英语词汇“silly-how”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	silly-how
释义	silly-how Now Sc. and north. Forms: 6, 8–9 Sc. sely how, 9 Sc. seely-, seeliehoo'; 7 syllie-hoe, 7– silly-how (7 sillie), 9 Sc. silly-hoo, north. -hue, -hew. [f. sely seely a. and silly a. + how houve. Cf. the equivalent Sc. happy how and G. glückshaube.] A child's caul. 1574J. Jones Nat. Beg. Growing & Living Things 26 Termed in Greeke..Chorion, Secundina of the Latines, of most in English, the Sely how.1616A. Roberts Treat. Witchcraft 66 That naturall couer where with some children are borne, and is called by our women, the sillie how.1648G. Daniel Eclog ii. 25 May wee not pull The Syllie-Hoe..Away? but tarrie Infants, in the wombe Of Ignorance.1710Ruddiman Gloss. to Douglas s.v. How, In Scotland the women call a haly or sely How..a film or membrane stretched over the heads of Children new born.1808Jamieson s.v. How. 1867 W. Anderson Rhymes 67 note (E.D.D.), Anyone possessing a seelyhoo' legally is always progressing in fortune.1894Heslop Northumbld. Gloss. s.v., The silly-hue is usually preserved, and is believed to sympathise with the person whose face it covered.
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