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Hood   /hʊd/   Listen
Hood

noun
1.
An aggressive and violent young criminal.  Synonyms: goon, hoodlum, punk, strong-armer, thug, tough, toughie.
2.
A protective covering that is part of a plant.  Synonym: cap.
3.
(slang) a neighborhood.
4.
A tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera.  Synonym: lens hood.
5.
(falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head.
6.
Metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes.  Synonym: exhaust hood.
7.
The folding roof of a carriage.
8.
A headdress that protects the head and face.
9.
Protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine.  Synonyms: bonnet, cowl, cowling.  "The mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine"
10.
(zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal.
verb
(past & past part. hooded; pres. part. hooding)
1.
Cover with a hood.



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"Hood" Quotes from Famous Books



... why, as the five go instinctively up to the altar, and there fall on their knees before the rails, are all eyes turned to the pew where Mrs. Leigh of Burrough has hid her face between her hands, and her hood rustles and shakes to her joyful sobs? Because there was fellow-feeling of old in merry England, in county and in town; and these are Devon men, and men of Bideford, whose names are Amyas Leigh of Burrough, John ...
— Westward Ho! • Charles Kingsley

... Pocket Book; or Hints for a Ryhte Merrie and Conceited Tour in Quarto, to be called "The Stranger in Ireland in 1805," by a Knight Errant'), would have given L600 for his 'Caledonian Sketches' (1808). In spite, however, of this proof of damages, the jury found, in Carr's action against Messrs. Hood and Sharpe, the publishers of 'My Pocket Book', that the criticism was fair and justifiable (1808). Carr published, in 1811, his 'Descriptive Travels in the Southern and Eastern Parts of Spain', without mentioning Byron's name. Byron concluded his MS. of 'Childe Harold', Canto I. with three ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, Vol. 1 • Lord Byron, Edited by Rowland E. Prothero

... the new school consider carefully Wolfe's "Sir John Moore," Campbell's "Hohenlinden," "Mariners of England," and "Rule Britannia," Hood's "Song of the Shirt" and "Bridge of Sighs," and then ask themselves, as men who would be poets: Were it not better to have written any one of those glorious lyrics than all which John Keats has left behind him? And let them be ...
— Literary and General Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley

... gave it to me. But it was pretty dark by that time, and a good long way from the Mission. I lost myself, and thought I was never going to get here," Billy admitted. "I guess I must have wandered all round Robin Hood's Barn, when, just as I was ready to give up boat, the stars come out through a lot of clouds, and showed me the roof of the church. I steered by that, and here ...
— The Port of Adventure • Charles Norris Williamson and Alice Muriel Williamson

... he said. Then he thrust a gnarled brown hand up under his fur hood, and scratched his head. "There's our forest 'phones. They're bein' cut. It's the same everywhere. There's most always things to break 'em happenin', but a break aint a cut. No. They're cut. Who's cuttin' 'em, and why? Fire-bugs. It ain't grouchy jacks. No. I've heerd the jacks ...
— The Man in the Twilight • Ridgwell Cullum


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