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noun

Skullcap n.

A cap which fits the head closely; also, formerly, a headpiece of iron sewed inside of a cap for protection.

(Bot.) Any plant of the labiate genus Scutellaria, the calyx of whose flower appears, when inverted, like a helmet with the visor raised.

(Zool.) The Lophiomys.

Mad-dog skullcap (Bot.), an American herb (Scetellaria lateriflora) formerly prescribed as a cure for hydrophobia.

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Etymology of 'Skullcap'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Skullcap" Quotes from Famous Books

... middle space was a large gilt throne chair, upholstered in red plush, and upon it sat a man bowed with age; his hair was silvery white and as pure as the driven snow. His head was partly covered with a white skullcap; he was dressed in a long white cassock which reached to his feet, which rested upon a red-plush cushion and were inclosed in red embroidered slippers with a design of a cross. A golden chain was about his neck and suspended by ...

— Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete - The Personal And Literary Life Of Samuel Langhorne Clemens • Albert Bigelow Paine

... tell the janitor to give the rooms a cleaning; but she found him—a fat, undersized old fellow in a skullcap—talking to a young man who had a leather portfolio stuck under his arm. As her eyes were red, and her voice no doubt still unsteady, she averted her head, and passed ...

— Sacrifice • Stephen French Whitman

... whispered conversation of a dozen canvassers, who were patiently awaiting their turn for gaining a hearing. On seeing the young man enter by the private door, the messenger rose, dropped his newspaper on the armchair, hastily raised his velvet skullcap, tried to smile, ...

— Serge Panine, Complete • Georges Ohnet

Words linked to "Skullcap" : yarmelke, calvaria, beany, coif, mad-dog skullcap, beanie, os, herbaceous plant, cranium, blue skullcap