单词 | houve |
释义 | † houvehooven. Obsolete or Scottish. a. A covering for the head; a turban, a coif; a cap, a skull-cap; the quilted skull-cap worn under a helmet; in Scottish (how, hoo) a night-cap (Jamieson). to glaze one's houve, give him a houve of glass or glasen houve: to mock, delude, cajole. See Skeat Chaucer, Notes to Canterbury Tales p. 237. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > quilted skullcap houvec1000 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > close-fitting houvec1000 crown cap1529 calotte16.. skull-cap1682 c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 152/24 Cidaris, uel mitra, hufe. c1050 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 188/20 Flammeolum, uel flammeum, biscopes huf. a1300 Body & Soul 246 in Map's Poems (Camden) 337 Tou..madest me an houue of glas. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. Prol. 84 Þer houeþ an Hundret In Houues of selk, Seriauns hit semeþ to seruen atte Barre. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde 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. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 469 Fortune his howue entendeth bet to glaze. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 171 A glasen houve. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 57 I pray yow alle þt ye noght yow greue Thogh I answere and som del sette his howue [v.rr. howe, houve, houwe]. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 56 To be my frend, and gyve me false counsaile, To breke myn hede, and yeve me a houffe. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 249/2 Howe..heed hyllynge. c1480 (a1400) St. Adrian 228 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 278 Þu did nocht ellis, I se now, bot to god mad a clasine [= glasine] how. c1480 (a1400) St. Ninian 1046 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 334 He ves hynt be how and hayre. 1483 Cath. Angl. 190/2 An Howfe, tena. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid v. x. 22 Thair haris all..That..with how and helm wes thristit down. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. iii. D Bracelettes and hooues. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Judith xvi. 8 She anoynted hir face, and bounde vp hir hayre in an hooue. 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 61 Break my head, and put on my hoo. b. A child's caul. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > embryo or fetus > membranes, etc., of embryo or fetus > [noun] > membranes enclosing houve1530 kell1530 cotyledon1540 chorion1545 coif1545 hoop-caul1545 shirt1545 caul1547 sillyhow1574 biggin1611 guard1611 allantoides1615 allantois1615 allantoid1633 amnios1657 amnion1667 heam1681 vitta1693 indusium1706 silly-hood1836 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 233/1 Hove that a chylde is borne in, taye. 1616 A. Roberts Treat. Witchcraft 66 That naturall couer where with some children are borne, and is called by our women, the sillie how. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 269. 1710 T. Ruddiman in G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneis (new ed.) Gloss. at 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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