A hood is a protective covering. It could be a car hood protecting the engine or your car or it could be the hood on your coat protecting your noggin.
State; condition.
Noun
protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane''s engine"
Noun
a headdress that protects the head and face
Noun
the folding roof of a carriage
Noun
metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
Noun
an aggressive and violent young criminal
Verb
cover with a hood; "The bandits were hooded"
n.
State; condition.
n.
A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders,
often attached to the body garment
n.
A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves
only the face exposed.
n.
A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his
head; a cowl.
n.
A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be
drawn up over the head at pleasure.
n.
An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or
ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.
n.
A covering for a horse's head.
n.
A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon.
n.
Anything resembling a hood in form or use
n.
The top or head of a carriage.
n.
A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught
by turning with the wind.
n.
A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of
the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.
n.
The top of a pump.
n.
A covering for a mortar.
n.
The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood;
-- called also helmet.
n.
A covering or porch for a companion hatch.
n.
The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or
stern.
v. t.
To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or
hood-shaped appendage.
v. t.
To cover; to hide; to blind.
Hood
How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood?2.
Hood
The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.2.
While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyes Thus with my hat, and sigh and say, "Amen."
State; condition.
Usage Examples
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.
Real shapes and real patterns are things you would observe in nature, like the marks on the back of a cobra's hood or the markings on a fish or a lizard. Imaginary shapes are just that, symbols that come to a person in dreams or reveries and are charged with meaning.
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Other Usage ExamplesMen should think twice before making widow hood woman's only path to power.
You know, I do music. If you look under the hood of the industry I'm in, it's all based on technology. From radio to phonographs to CDs, it's all technology. Microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, it's all technology.
There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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