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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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... probability. He preached most excellent morality, and the equality of man; but he preached also against the corruptions and avarice of the Jewish priests, and this brought upon him the hatred and vengeance of the whole order of priest-hood. The accusation which those priests brought against him was that of sedition and conspiracy against the Roman government, to which the Jews were then subject and tributary; and it is not improbable that the Roman government might have some secret apprehension of the effects of his doctrine as well ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine
... were convenient to study the matter more closely, we might see, in the canons of councils from the eleventh to the fourteenth centuries, the Church exerting herself to develop more and more in this order of knight-hood, this institution of an essentially warlike origin, the moral and civilizing character of which a glimpse has just been caught in ...
— A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume I. of VI. • Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot
... as about to capture Atlanta. Readers of the Constitutionel, Patrie, Moniteur, and La France "know quite well that Sherman has neither occupied the centre, the circumference, nor, indeed, any part of the defences of Atlanta; and that he was completely defeated by General Hood on July 22." (Index, Aug. 18, 1864, p. 522.) The Paris correspondent wrote, October 19, after the news was received of Sheridan's ...
— Great Britain and the American Civil War • Ephraim Douglass Adams
... last three poems, the physical beauty described is that of dark eyes and hair. This may serve to remind you that there are two distinct types, opposite types, of beauty celebrated by English poets; and the next poem which I am going to quote, the beautiful "Ruth" of Thomas Hood, also describes a ...
— Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn • Lafcadio Hearn
... sex! you, I know, will pardon the enthusiasm which stirs our pulses, now in sober middle age, as we call up again the memories of this the most exciting sport of our boy hood (for we were but boys then, after all). You will pardon, though I fear hopelessly unable to understand, the above sketch; your sons and brothers will tell you it could not ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes


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