-hood
8 definitions found
-hood - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Hood \Hood\, n. [OE. hood, hod, AS. h[=o]d; akin to D. hoed hat,
G. hut, OHG. huot, also to E. hat, and prob. to E. heed.
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1. State; condition. [Obs.]
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How could thou ween, through that disguised hood
To hide thy state from being understood? --Spenser.
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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.
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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.
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4. (Shipbuilding) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches
the stem or stern.
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-hood \-hood\ [OE. hod, had, hed, hede, etc., person, rank,
order, condition, AS. h[=a]d; akin to OS. h[=e]d, OHG. heit,
G. -heit, D. -heid, Goth. haidus manner; cf. Skr. k[=e]tu
brightness, cit to appear, be noticeable, notice. [root]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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Hoodlum \Hood"lum\, n.
A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow; colloquially, called
also hood. [Colloq. U.S.]
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Just tell your hoodlum friends outside
You ain't got time to take no ride. --Yakety-Yak (Song)
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Hood \Hood\, n.
1. [shortened from hoodlum.] Same as hoodlum. [Colloq.]
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2. [shortened from neighborhood.] Same as neighborhood.
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Hood \Hood\ (h[oo^]d), 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.
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The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned. --Pope.
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2. To cover; to hide; to blind.
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While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyes
Thus with my hat, and sigh and say, "Amen." --Shak.
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Hooding end (Shipbuilding), the end of a hood where it
enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post.
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Bonnet \Bon"net\ (b[o^]n"n[e^]t), n. [OE. bonet, OF. bonet,
bonete. F. bonnet fr. LL. bonneta, bonetum; orig. the name of
a stuff, and of unknown origin.]
1. A headdress for men and boys; a cap. [Obs.] --Milton.
--Shak.
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2. A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless
woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.
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And plaids and bonnets waving high. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting
more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part
of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at
different times; formerly the front part projected, and
spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.
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4. Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use; as,
(a) (Fort.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a
part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part
from enfilade fire.
(b) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as
a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught
of a chimney, etc.
(c) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to
prevent escape of sparks.
(d) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its
occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
(e) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the
valve chambers.
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5. (Naut.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of
a jib or foresail in moderate winds. --Hakluyt.
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6. The second stomach of a ruminating animal.
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7. An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices
others to bet or to bid; a decoy. [Cant]
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8. (Automobiles) The metal cover or shield over the motor;
predominantly British usage. In the U.S. it is called the
hood. [Brit.]
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Bonnet limpet (Zool.), a name given, from their shape, to
various species of shells (family Calyptr[ae]id[ae]).
Bonnet monkey (Zool.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus
), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga.
Bonnet piece, a gold coin of the time of James V. of
Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. --Sir
W. Scott.
To have a bee in the bonnet. See under Bee.
Black bonnet. See under Black.
Blue bonnet. See in the Vocabulary.
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-hood - Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :
Hood
(Heb. tsaniph) a tiara round the head (Isa. 3:23; R.V., pl.,
"turbans"). Rendered "diadem," Job 29:14; high priest's "mitre,"
Zech. 3:5; "royal diadem," Isa. 62:3.
-hood - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
225 Moby Thesaurus words for "hood":
Mafioso, SOB, Young Turk, apply to, bad boy, bastard, battler,
beast, beldam, belligerent, belted knight, berserk, berserker,
bickerer, blade, blanket, block, bomber, bonnet, booger, boot,
bravo, brawler, breech, bruiser, brute, buffoon, bugger, bully,
bullyboy, canopy, cap, ceil, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, coif,
combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cope, cork, cover,
cover up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling,
creep, crown, curtain, cutup, demon, devil, disputant, dome,
dragon, drape, drapery, duelist, eclipse, elf, enfant terrible,
enforcer, fart, fencer, feuder, fiend, fighter, fighting cock,
film, fire-eater, firebrand, foilsman, frock, funmaker, fury,
gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, gown, guise, gun, gunsel,
hanging, hardnose, hat, hatchet man, heel, hell-raiser, hellcat,
hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hoodlum, hooligan, hothead,
hotspur, housing, imp, incendiary, jacket, jerk, joker, jokester,
jouster, killer, knave, knight, lay on, lay over, little devil,
little monkey, little rascal, louse, mad dog, madcap, mantle, mask,
meanie, militant, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, monster, mother,
muffle, mug, mugger, muscle man, obduce, obscure, occult, overlay,
overspread, pall, pill, pixie, plug-ugly, practical joker,
prankster, puck, put on, quarreler, rapist, rapscallion, rascal,
rat, revolutionary, rioter, rival, rodman, rogue, roof, roof in,
rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, savage, scamp,
scapegrace, scrapper, screen, scuffler, scum, she-wolf, shelter,
shield, shirt, shit, shithead, shitheel, shoe, shroud, sock,
spitfire, spread over, squabbler, stinkard, stinker, stocking,
stopper, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler,
superimpose, superpose, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer,
swordsman, termagant, terror, terrorist, thug, tiger, tigress,
tilter, tip, top, torpedo, tough, tough guy, trigger man, turd,
tussler, ugly customer, veil, vestment, violent, virago, vixen,
wag, wild beast, witch, wolf, wrangler
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