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单词 skull-cap
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skull-capn.

Brit. /ˈskʌlkap/, U.S. /ˈskəlˌkæp/
Forms: Also 1600s–1800s scull-cap.
Etymology: < skull n.1 + cap n.1
1.
a. A light, close-fitting cap, usually of silk, velvet, or other soft material, for covering the head.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > cap > types of > close-fitting
houvec1000
crown cap1529
calotte16..
skull-cap1682
α.
1682 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 182 About 30 persons,..clad in Indian stuffs, with sculp [sic] caps on their heads.
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. ii. sig. Mmm4v/3 A Scull-cap, that some wear under the Perwig.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. xlii. 286 They also use scull-caps of paper, or a cabbage-leaf under their hats.
1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose iii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 38 A presbyterian clergyman..wearing a black silk scull-cap.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 206 Their black and greasy scull~caps..might once have been red.
β. 1704 R. Steele Lying Lover ii. 31 I suppose I was used like other Children.—They clap'd me on a Skul-cap.a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 59 He wore commonly a little leather cap, which sort was then called skull caps.1849 A. H. Layard Nineveh & Remains I. i. vii. 199 The women wore small embroidered scull-caps.1888 J. W. Burgon Lives Twelve Good Men I. iii. 355 He commonly wore a black silk skull-cap.
b. figurative.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > like a cap
cap1688
skull-cap1960
1960 S. Becker tr. A. Schwarz-Bart Last of Just (1961) vi. 305 Everything under the skullcap of the heavens that called itself a democracy.
1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. July–Aug. 35/2 I remember the moon is a skullcap not placed properly on the head.
2. Historical. A steel or iron cap, a form of casque or helmet fitting closely to the head; = skull n.1 3.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > metal skullcap
basinetc1300
coifc1380
capeline1488
skull1522
hat piece1598
pan1638
pot1639
skull-cap1820
bassinet-
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. ix. 242 An iron scull-cap, none of the brightest, bore for distinction a sprig of the holly.
1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller (1849) 174 There was a ferocious tyrant in a skullcap like an inverted porringer, and a dress of red baize.
1834 J. R. Planché Hist. Brit. Costume 98 Skull-caps.., with or without nasals, are common amongst esquires, archers and men at arms.
3.
a. Botany. One or other of various species of plants belonging to the genus Scutellaria, in which the calyx finally assumes the appearance of a helmet.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > hooded willow-herb
willow-herb1597
skull-cap1760
mad-dog skullcap1822
α.
1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 316/1 Scull-cap, see Skull-cap.
1777 J. Lightfoot Flora Scotica I. 320 [Scutellaria minor] Little red Scull cap or Willow-herb. Anglis.
1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. (new ed.) I. 5 Scutellaria hyssopifolia. Hyssop-leaved Scull-cap.
1821 W. P. C. Barton Flora N. Amer. (new ed.) I. 78 Scutellaria lateriflora. Side-flowering Scull-cap... Blue Scull-cap.
1845–50 A. H. Lincoln Familiar Lect. Bot. (new ed.) 172 The scull-cap, (Scutellaria,)..has been said to be a remedy for the hydrophobia.
β. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 316/2 Skull-cap, Scutellaria.1786 J. Abercrombie Arrangem. Plants 67 in Gardeners Daily Assistant Skull-cap, or helmet flower.1855 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. IV. 205 Common Skull-cap..received its name from the singular impalement of its calyx, which, when inverted, resembles a helmet with its visor raised.
b. North American. (See quot. 1846-50)
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Scrophulariaceae (figwort and allies) > [noun] > Veronica or speedwell
lemkea1300
God's eye?a1350
waterlink?a1425
brooklimea1450
fluellin1548
Paul's betony1548
wood-penny1570
water pimpernel1575
ground-hele1578
speedwell1578
wild germander1578
germander chickweed1597
leper's herb1600
lime-wort1666
water purpy1683
water-speedwell1690
beccabunga1706
rock speedwell1719
Welsh speedwell1731
germander speedwell1732
St. Paul's betony1736
vernal speedwell1796
wall speedwell1796
cat's-eye1817
wellink1826
skull-cap1846
forget-me-not1853
veronica1855
angels' eyes1862
horse-cress1879
faverel1884
St. Paul's betony1884
1846–50 A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 406 Veronica scutellata, Skull-cap or Marsh Speedwell,..[grows] in swamps and marshes, N. Eng. and Western States, and Brit. Am[erica].
4. Geology. (See quots.)
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > age or period > stratigraphic units > [noun] > secondary or Mesozoic > Jurassic > specific
Oxford clay1812
cornbrash1813
Kellaways1813
Portland oolite1814
coral-rag1816
oolite1816
Oxford oolite1818
Kimmeridge clay1830
lias1833
Portland sand1836
skull-cap1839
Solenhofen slate1841
Stonesfield slate1855
Callovian1856
Tithonian1869
coralline oolite1871
Lincolnshire limestone1873
Ampthill Clay1877
Aalenian1882
Pliensbachian1903
1839 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 2 375/2 The skull cap [in certain quarries in the island of Portland] is irregular in texture; it is a well-compacted limestone, containing cherty nodules.
1860 R. Damon Handbk. Geol. Weymouth 88 The term ‘skull cap’, applied to the solid layers constituting the lowest bed of the Purbeck formation, is intended to denote its position in relation to other beds below.
1885 R. Etheridge Stratigr. Geol. & Palæontol. 478 (note) The lower Purbeck beds are known as the ‘cap’ and the ‘skull cap’. They are botryoidal limestones or indurated calcareous tuffs, possibly derived from the denudation of the Portland rocks.
5. Anatomy. The bony structure covering the brain; the top or roof of the head.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > top of skull
crownc1275
scalpa1300
calvaria1398
crany1525
crane?1541
cranium1543
brain-cap1812
skull-cap1855
1855 L. Holden Human Osteol. 94 The skull-cap is composed of the expanded arches of three of the cranial vertebræ, and forms a beautiful oval dome for the protection of the brain.
1866 Chambers's Encycl. VIII. 760/1 These fossæ are marked, as is the whole skull-cap, by the cerebral convolutions.

Draft additions September 2013

ˈskullcapped adj. wearing or having a skullcap.
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1834 J. H. Mancur Henri Quatre II. xxiii. 248 The learned skull-capped Calvinists were excited to a pitch of horror at the idolatrous ware around them.
1875 Catholic World July 463 The mandarin..acknowledged by a slow bend of his skull-capped head and a movement of the left hand towards the tip of his nose.
1979 W. J. Fishman Streets of East London iv. 92/1 The small, thin figures, skull-capped and ill at ease in their dark Western suits.
2008 T: N.Y. Times Style Mag. 18 May 156/3 Some of the people not far from the large mosque down the street were skullcapped Muslim elders.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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