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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



... 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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