What's the difference between caul and waul?

Caul


Definition:

  • (n.) A covering of network for the head, worn by women; also, a net.
  • (n.) The fold of membrane loaded with fat, which covers more or less of the intestines in mammals; the great omentum. See Omentum.
  • (n.) A part of the amnion, one of the membranes enveloping the fetus, which sometimes is round the head of a child at its birth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Experiment 3 showed that the relationships among variables observed in nondeprived animals remain the same in animals restricted to 12 h of access to food each day and replicated the amphetamine-induced hyperphasia observed earlier by Jones and Caul (9).
  • (2) The treatment is always surgical, without excluding the possibility of a recurrence if the cyst caul has not been completely removed.
  • (3) An infant born in a complete caul survived 25 minutes of extrauterine life inside the intract sac of membranes.
  • (4) She recalls: "When Rex was born he was still in the caul, or membrane, and I remember thinking, what do I have to do about this?
  • (5) Although it is possible for an infant to be born in the caul, i.e.

Waul


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To cry as a cat; to squall; to wail.

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