hatted, ppl. a.
[f. hat v. or n. + -ed.]
Wearing a hat, having a hat on.
| 1552 Huloet, Hatted, petasatus. 1559 Morwyng Evonym. Pref., Hens with your hatted Mercury, and with his rod also. 1607 Tourneur Rev. Trag. i. ii. Wks. 1878 II. 19 It is as easie way unto a Dutchesse, As to a Hatted-dame [= peasant woman]. 1791 F. Burney Diary Aug., Ready hatted and cloaked. 1858 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. i. v. (1872) I. 40 We will pity the crowned head, as well as the hatted or even hatless one. |
b. fig. Capped, crowned.
| 1880 C. M. Mason 40 Shires 376 Here and there they are hatted with trees. |
c. hatted kit: † (a) A dairy vessel: ? a pail ‘kit’ with a cover (obs.). (b) A preparation of milk, etc., with a creamy top.
| 1572 Inv. Ger. Salveyn in Wills & Inv. N. Counties (Surtees 1835) 349 One butt{supr} skepp, ij hattyd kitts. 1600 Let. in Mem. J. Napier of Merchiston v. (1834) 219 We sould have prepared ane fyne hattit kit, with succar, comfeits and wine. 1818 Scott Br. Lamm. xi, He has spilt the hatted kitt that was for the Master's dinner. 1831 Loudon Encycl. Agric. (1857) 1048 Hatted kitt, a gallon of sour buttermilk is put in the bottom of the milk-pail, and a quart or more of milk drawn from the cow into it..The new warm milk..rises to the top and forms a creamy scum or hat over the other; whence the name. |