Free translatorFree translator
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Hood   /hʊd/   Listen
noun
Hood  n.  
1.
State; condition. (Obs.) "How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood?"
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."
(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.
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.
(g)
(Naut.) A covering or porch for a companion hatch.
4.
(Shipbuilding) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.


Hood  n.  
1.
Same as hoodlum. (Colloq.)
2.
Same as neighborhood. (slang)


verb
Hood  v. t.  (past & past part. hooded; pres. part. hooding)  
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.""
Hooding end (Shipbuilding), the end of a hood where it enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post.


suffix
-hood  suff.  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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Hood" Quotes from Famous Books



... against the prisoner." The distinguished scarlet mask suddenly changed tune. While the hideous face within the close-fitting hood glared fiendishly at Marjorie, the real face behind it wore an expression of baffled anger. The unruly prisoner seemed in possession of an inner force that forbade molestation. Then, too, she was unafraid and all ready to make a ...
— Marjorie Dean, College Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... spoken words have an eerie suggestiveness in this connection. Writing of his death on the 12th of December, 1905, Mrs. Sharp says: "About three o'clock, with his devoted friend Alec Hood by his side, he suddenly leant forward with shining eyes and exclaimed in a tone of joyous recognition, 'Oh, the beautiful "Green Life," again!' and the next moment sank back in my arms with the contented ...
— Vanishing Roads and Other Essays • Richard Le Gallienne
... shoveled through the drifts. I put on my cloak and hood and went out. The air stung my cheeks like fire. Half walking in the paths, half working our way through the lesser drifts, we succeeded in reaching a pine grove just outside a broad pasture. The trees stood motionless and white like figures in a marble frieze. ...
— Story of My Life • Helen Keller
... There is no trace whatever of individual authorship. "This song was made by Billy Gashade," asserts the author of the immensely popular American ballad of "Jesse James." But we do not know what "Billy Gashade" it was who first made rhymes about Robin Hood or Johnny Armstrong, or just how much help he had from the crowd in composing them. In any case, the method of such ballads is purely objective. They do not moralize or sentimentalize. There is little description, aside from the use of set, conventional phrases. They do not "motivate" the story ...
— A Study of Poetry • Bliss Perry
... chair. Pao-ch'ai and Tai-y mounted together a curricle with green cover and pearl tassels, bearing the eight precious things. The three sisters, Ying Ch'un, T'an Ch'un, and Hsi Ch'un got in a carriage with red wheels and ornamented hood. Next in order, followed dowager lady Chia's waiting-maids, Yan Yang, Ying Wu, Hu Po, Chen Chu; Lin Tai-y's waiting-maids Tzu Chan, Hseh Yen, and Ch'un Ch'ien; Pao-ch'ai's waiting-maids Ying Erh and Wen Hsing; Ying Ch'un's servant-girls Ssu Ch'i and Hsiu Ch; T'an Ch'un's waiting-maids ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin


More quotes...


Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org