-hood
-hood
[Old English hod, had, hed, hede, etc., person, rank, order, condition, Anglo-Saxon hād; akin to Old Saxon hēd, Old High German heit, German -heit, Dutch -heid, Gothic haidus manner; compare Sanskrit kētu brightness, cit to appear, be noticeable, notice. r217. Compare -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.
Hood , noun
[Old English hood, hod, Anglo-Saxon hōd; akin to Dutch hoed hat, German hut, Old High German huot, also to English hat, and prob. to English heed. r13.]
1.
State; condition. [Obsolete]
How could thou ween, through that disguised hood
To hide thy state from being understood?
2.
(Falconry) A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment
(a)
(Falconry) A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.
(b)
(Falconry) A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl.
(c)
(Falconry) A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.
(d)
(Falconry) An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.
(e)
(Falconry) A covering for a horse's head.
(f)
3.
(Ord.) Anything resembling a hood in form or use
(a)
(Ord.) The top or head of a carriage.
(b)
(Ord.) A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.
(c)
(Ord.) A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.
(d)
(Ord.) The top of a pump.
(e)
(Ord.) A covering for a mortar.
(f)
(Ord.) The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet.
(g)
(Ord.) A covering or porch for a companion hatch. — Gray
4.
(Shipbuilding) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.
Hood (hod) , transitive verb
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.”
Collocations (1)
Hooding end (Shipbuilding) , the end of a hood where it enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post.
Hood , noun
[shortened from hoodlum.]
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