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hood(1) (iou)



hood noun1 & verb.
[Old English hod = Old Frisian hod, Middle Dutch hoet (Dutch hoed), Old High German huot (German Hut hat), from West Germanic base rel. to that of HAT noun.]
A. noun.
A covering for the head and neck (sometimes also the shoulders) with an opening for the face, either forming part of a coat, cloak, etc., or separate. OE.
three faces in a hood, three faces under a hood: see THREE adjective.
B. Lopez A movement of my head shifted the hood of my parka slightly.
spec. A hood worn as a mark of official or professional dignity, usu. thrown back on the shoulders; esp. such a hood worn with an academic gown, coloured or ornamented to indicate degree, faculty, etc.; the ornamental attachment on the back of a cope, orig. shaped and used like a hood. ME.
D. L. Sayers His surplice and Oxford hood over one arm.
The part of a suit of armour for covering the head, a helmet or a flexible covering worn under a helmet, (obsolete exc. Hist.). Now also, a helmet-like covering for the entire head as protection against fumes, radiation, etc. ME.
Observer The burnproof transparent hood covers the entire head.
A leather covering for a hawk's head to keep it quiet when not hunting. LME.
Something resembling a hood in shape or use; a covering, a protection; spec. (a) the cover of a carriage; esp. a folding waterproof cover of a pram, (convertible) motor car, etc.; (b) a canopy to remove fumes from a cooker etc. or to protect the user of machinery; (c) a tube attached to the front of a camera lens to protect it from strong or extraneous light; (d) (chiefly N. Amer.) the bonnet of a motor vehicle; (e) the upper part of the corolla or calyx in some flowers; (f) a flap of skin or a marking on the head of any of various animals, as the cobra. E17.
F. O'Connor He got out and opened the hood of the truck and began to study the motor. J. S. Foster Control of the..air supply can be effected by a hood..above the fire bed. P. Leach Put the pram hood up and turn its back to the breeze.
Comb.: hood-end Nautical the end of a plank fitting into the stem and stern rabbeting; hood-mould, hood-moulding Architecture a dripstone.
b. verb trans. Cover or protect (as) with a hood. ME.
W. Wharton He listens, bright blue eyes hooded with fine red eyelashes. New Yorker Mrs. Wetten was forced into a car, hooded, taken to a cell.