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silly-how (plural silly-hows)

1. (now rare, dialectal) The caul which sometimes envelops the top of a child's head after birth.
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23:

     Great conceits are raised of the involution or meembranous covering, commonly called the silly-how, that sometimes is found about the heads of children upon their birth, and is therefore preserved with great care […]

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