hooding

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hooding - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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