noun.
A covering for the head, of soft or flexible material, as cloth, leather, or chain-mail (in a suit of armor), usually extending over the back of the neck and sometimes the shoulders, and often attached to a garment worn about the body: as, the hood of a monk; the hood of an academic gown. See also cut under camail.
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In falconry, a covering for the entire head of a hawk.
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A cover of a carriage for the protection of its occupants, made so that it can be folded or turned back, or removed.
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Something that resembles a hood in form, position, or use, as the upper petal or sepal of certain flowers, a chimney-cowl, etc.; specifically, in zoology, a conformation of parts or an arrangement of color on or about the head, like or likened to a hood. See phrases under hooded.
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The hooded seal, Cystophora cristata.
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In ship-building, the foremost and aftermost planks of a ship's bottom, both inside and outside.
To cover the head of with a hood; furnish with a hood: as, to hood a falcon; to hood a chimney.
Hence To cover; hide; blind.
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The rise in the quarter-deck which gives more head-room to the cabin.
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A covering over a hatchway to protect the openingfrom the weather.
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A projecting shelter-like canopy over an outer door, usually carried by corbels or brackets. See hoodmold.
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A similar projecting member over a hearth, intended to direct the smoke inward toward the flue.
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In modern ventilation, a projection above a range or furnace, intended to carry off the smell of cooking or noxious gases.
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In chemical laboratories, a fixed appliance consisting of an inclosed and covered space within which offensive gases or vapors may be evolved and carried off by a connected flue without escaping into the room. It is usually provided with a sliding or hinged door in front for the introduction and removal of apparatus.
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A curved cover for a machine or for any part of one.
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The cover for a blacksmith's forge.
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In electricity, a protecting cover, also sometimes serving as a reflector, placed over an are-lamp.
A suffix denoting ‘state, quality, character,’ as in childhood, boyhood, manhood, maidenhood, fatherhood, brotherhood, sisterhood, knighthood, priesthood, Godhood, etc.