noun. A neighborhood, usually in the inner city.

noun. A hoodlum; a thug.

noun. A rowdy or violent young person.

noun. A loose pliable covering for the head and neck, often attached to a robe or jacket.

noun. An ornamental draping of cloth hung from the shoulders of an academic or ecclesiastical robe.

noun. A sack placed over the head of a falcon to keep it quiet.

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noun. A metal cover or cowl for a hearth or stove.

noun. A carriage top.

noun. The hinged metal lid over the engine of a motor vehicle.

noun. A colored marking or an expanded part, such as a crest, on or near the head of an animal.

transitive verb. To supply or cover with a hood.

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.

noun. In falconry, a covering for the entire head of a hawk.

noun. A cover of a carriage for the protection of its occupants, made so that it can be folded or turned back, or removed.

noun. 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.

noun. The hooded seal, Cystophora cristata.

noun. 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.

noun. The rise in the quarter-deck which gives more head-room to the cabin.

noun. A covering over a hatchway to protect the openingfrom the weather.

noun. A projecting shelter-like canopy over an outer door, usually carried by corbels or brackets. See hoodmold.

noun. A similar projecting member over a hearth, intended to direct the smoke inward toward the flue.

noun. In modern ventilation, a projection above a range or furnace, intended to carry off the smell of cooking or noxious gases.

noun. 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.

noun. A curved cover for a machine or for any part of one.

noun. The cover for a blacksmith's forge.

noun. 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.

noun. State; condition.

noun. A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment.

noun. A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.

noun. A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl.

noun. A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.

noun. An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment.

noun. A covering for a horse's head.

noun. A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon.

noun. Anything resembling a hood in form or use.

noun. The top or head of a carriage.

noun. A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.

noun. A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.

noun. The top of a pump.

noun. A covering for a mortar.

noun. The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet.

noun. A covering or porch for a companion hatch.

noun. The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.

noun. Same as hoodlum.

noun. Same as neighborhood.

transitive verb. To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.