CAUL, n.
1. In anatomy, a membrane in the abdomen, covering the greatest part of the lower intestines, called from its structure, reticuluim, a net, but more generally, the omentum also, a little membrane sometimes encompassing the head of a child when born.
2. A kind of net in which females inclose their hair the hinder part of a cap.
3. Any kind of net.
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