Hood (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooded (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Hooding.]
1.
To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.
Pope. 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."
Shak. Hooding
end (Shipbuilding), the
end of a hood where it
enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern
post.
Hood (?), n. [OE. hood, hod, AS. hōd; akin to D. hoed hat, G. hut, OHG. huot, also to E. hat, and prob. to E. heed. √13.]
1. State; condition.
[Obs.]
How could thou ween, through that disguised hood
To hide thy state from being understood?
Spenser.
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." Shak.
(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.
See Illust. of Falcon.
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. Gray. (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 (?). [OE. hod, had, hed, hede, etc., person, rank, order, condition, AS. hād; akin to OS. hēd, OHG. heit, G.
-heit, D. -heid, Goth. haidus manner; cf.
Skr. kētu brightness, cit to appear, be
noticeable, notice.
√217. Cf. -head.]
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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