"silly-how" meaning in English

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        "2": "silly"
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      "expansion": "silly",
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      "args": {
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        "2": "seely"
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        "2": "houve"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From silly, seely + early form of houve.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "silly-hows",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "silly-how (plural silly-hows)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23",
          "text": "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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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "The caul which sometimes envelopes the top of a child's head after birth."
      ],
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        [
          "caul",
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        ],
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          "birth",
          "birth"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare, dialectal) The caul which sometimes envelopes the top of a child's head after birth."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic",
        "dialectal"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "silly-how"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "silly"
      },
      "expansion": "silly",
      "name": "m"
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "seely"
      },
      "expansion": "seely",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "houve"
      },
      "expansion": "houve",
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From silly, seely + early form of houve.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "silly-hows",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "silly-how (plural silly-hows)",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "English countable nouns",
        "English dialectal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
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        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, V.23",
          "text": "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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        }
      ],
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        "The caul which sometimes envelopes the top of a child's head after birth."
      ],
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          "caul",
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          "birth",
          "birth"
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        "(now rare, dialectal) The caul which sometimes envelopes the top of a child's head after birth."
      ],
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        "archaic",
        "dialectal"
      ]
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  "word": "silly-how"
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