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Hood   /hʊd/   Listen
noun
Hood  n.  
1.
State; condition. (Obs.) "How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood?"
2.
A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment; especially:
(a)
A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.
(b)
A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl. "All hoods make not monks."
(c)
A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.
(d)
An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.
(e)
A covering for a horse's head.
(f)
(Falconry) A covering for a hawk's head and eyes.
3.
Anything resembling a hood in form or use; as:
(a)
The top or head of a carriage.
(b)
A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.
(c)
A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.
(d)
The top of a pump.
(e)
(Ord.) A covering for a mortar.
(f)
(Bot.) The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; called also helmet.
(g)
(Naut.) A covering or porch for a companion hatch.
4.
(Shipbuilding) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.


Hood  n.  
1.
Same as hoodlum. (Colloq.)
2.
Same as neighborhood. (slang)


verb
Hood  v. t.  (past & past part. hooded; pres. part. hooding)  
1.
To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage. "The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned."
2.
To cover; to hide; to blind. "While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyes Thus with my hat, and sigh and say, "Amen.""
Hooding end (Shipbuilding), the end of a hood where it enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post.


suffix
-hood  suff.  A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form -head.





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"Hood" Quotes from Famous Books



... thy hands and thy hood be With the blood of a brother betrayed, O Would-be-Professor of Would-be, We call thee to bless and to aid. Transmuted would travel with Er, see The Land of the Rolling of Logs, Charmed, chained to thy side, as ...
— Green Bays. Verses and Parodies • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... arrived early at the Opera House and was looking about while the fiddles were tuning up. I wore my pearls and a scarlet crepe-de-chine dress and a black cloth cape with a hood on it, which I put on over my head when I walked home in the rain. I was having a frank stare at the audience, when I observed just opposite me an officer in a white uniform. As the Saxon soldiers wore pale blue, I wondered what army he could ...
— Margot Asquith, An Autobiography: Volumes I & II • Margot Asquith
... non about hym but chose[n] me[n]. And for to clere Milo he sheweth the con- trary / that he had with hym syngyng lad- des and women seruantes that wayted on his wyfe / whiche maketh it of more likely- hood y^t Clodius went about to slee Milo: ...
— The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke • Leonard Cox
... failing in his direct attack on them, but probably thinking it necessary to show that he would attack whenever needed. Johnston has left a name as a master of defensive warfare, and doubtless delayed and hampered Sherman as much as he could. Jefferson Davis angrily and unwisely sent General Hood to supersede him. This less prudent officer gave battle several times, bringing up the Confederate loss before Atlanta fell to 34,000 against 30,000 on the other side, and being, by great skill on Sherman's part, compelled to evacuate ...
— Abraham Lincoln • Lord Charnwood
... his head slightly bent forward and the hood of his hunting-shirt thrown back, listening attentively. Then he touched Hunting Dog, and stooping low down whispered something in his ear, and then both stood again listening. Tom, too, threw back his hood, but he could hear ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty


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