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caul

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A caul or cowl (, literally, "helmeted head") is a piece of membrane that can cover a newborn's head and face. Birth with a caul is rare, occurring in fewer than 1 in 80,000 births. The caul is harmless and is immediately removed by the physician or midwife ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. part of the peritoneum attached to the stomach and to the colon and covering the intestines [syn: greater omentum , gastrocolic omentum ] the inner embryonic membrane of higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth) [syn: veil , embryonic ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context historical English) A style of close-fitting circular cap worn by women in the sixteenth century and later, often made of linen. (from 14th c.) 2 (context anatomy obsolete except in specific senses English) A membrane. (14th-17th c.) 3 The ...

Usage examples of caul.

Who returning nexte daie towarde Owlswyke I dyd followe aftir, and so toke them facynge me in a plaise cauled Crosbie Owtsykes where they did make shifte to kepe the phords and passages of Ethrey river very stronge.

Reman, Emme, Loes, Caul, and some of the others who help Hannah with the cupola and who are especially good at building things.

So roughly do they hold her that the caul of fabric and skin soldering shoulder to neck rips.

The eyes were covered with a caul of lacelike skin, the nose was missing and the mouth was a lipless circle of dribbling flesh.

Who returning nexte daie towarde Owlswyke I dyd followe aftir, and so toke them facynge me in a plaise cauled Crosbie Owtsykes where they did make shifte to kepe the phords and passages of Ethrey river very stronge.

But he thought the chances of both twins having cauls was something like a million to one.

In one of those books, it said that when twins were born with cauls, that was .

Yancy about the babies having cauls and about how Katherine reacted to that.

Somewhere she had picked up the fact that some people believe twins born with cauls are marked by a demon.

She told them they'd been born with cauls, and she explained what that meant.

Gul Aluf's gaze had been drawn back to the images of the birth cauls, as if for her they were magnetic.

The presents which they sent to our General, were feathers, and cauls of network.

Black cauls like the Taurus or Rho-Ophiuchi dark clouds or the Aquila Rift itself.

It took the seven of us to drag him on board, and then I cleaned and skinned him as Tom had taught me, and showed Jean how to put the caul fat and liver in rows on a skewer and wrap it in the bear’.

Canned calves brains packed in caul fat on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, hyena-print sarongs in northern Minnesota, and sophisticated digital recording equipment in Shreve-port would send the entire system wobbling on its axis.