hood

hood
    n 1: an aggressive and violent young criminal [syn: {hood},
         {hoodlum}, {goon}, {punk}, {thug}, {tough}, {toughie},
         {strong-armer}]
    2: a protective covering that is part of a plant [syn: {hood},
       {cap}]
    3: (slang) a neighborhood
    4: a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens
       of a camera [syn: {hood}, {lens hood}]
    5: (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head
    6: metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
       [syn: {hood}, {exhaust hood}]
    7: the folding roof of a carriage
    8: a headdress that protects the head and face
    9: 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" [syn: {hood}, {bonnet}, {cowl},
       {cowling}]
    10: (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a
        hood on the head or neck of an animal
    v 1: cover with a hood; "The bandits were hooded"
    

Hood \Hood\, n. [OE. hood, hod, AS. h[=o]d; akin to D. hoed hat,
   G. hut, OHG. huot, also to E. hat, and prob. to E. heed.
   [root]13.]
   1. State; condition. [Obs.]
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            How could thou ween, through that disguised hood
            To hide thy state from being understood? --Spenser.
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   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." --Shak.
      (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. See
          Illust. of {Falcon}.
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   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}. --Gray.
      (g) (Naut.) A covering or porch for a companion hatch.
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   4. (Shipbuilding) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches
      the stem or stern.
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-hood \-hood\ [OE. hod, had, hed, hede, etc., person, rank,
   order, condition, AS. h[=a]d; akin to OS. h[=e]d, OHG. heit,
   G. -heit, D. -heid, Goth. haidus manner; cf. Skr. k[=e]tu
   brightness, cit to appear, be noticeable, notice. [root]217.
   Cf. {-head}.]
   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.
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Hoodlum \Hood"lum\, n.
   A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow; colloquially, called
   also {hood}. [Colloq. U.S.]
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         Just tell your hoodlum friends outside
         You ain't got time to take no ride. --Yakety-Yak (Song)
   [PJC]
    

Hood \Hood\, n.
   1. [shortened from hoodlum.] Same as {hoodlum}. [Colloq.]
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   2. [shortened from neighborhood.] Same as {neighborhood}.
      [slang]
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Hood \Hood\ (h[oo^]d), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hooded}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Hooding}.]
   1. To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or
      hood-shaped appendage.
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            The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned. --Pope.
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   2. To cover; to hide; to blind.
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            While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyes
            Thus with my hat, and sigh and say, "Amen." --Shak.
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   {Hooding end} (Shipbuilding), the end of a hood where it
      enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post.
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Bonnet \Bon"net\ (b[o^]n"n[e^]t), n. [OE. bonet, OF. bonet,
   bonete. F. bonnet fr. LL. bonneta, bonetum; orig. the name of
   a stuff, and of unknown origin.]
   1. A headdress for men and boys; a cap. [Obs.] --Milton.
      --Shak.
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   2. A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless
      woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.
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            And plaids and bonnets waving high.   --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   3. A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting
      more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part
      of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at
      different times; formerly the front part projected, and
      spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.
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   4. Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use; as,
      (a) (Fort.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a
          part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part
          from enfilade fire.
      (b) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as
          a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught
          of a chimney, etc.
      (c) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to
          prevent escape of sparks.
      (d) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its
          occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
      (e) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the
          valve chambers.
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   5. (Naut.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of
      a jib or foresail in moderate winds. --Hakluyt.
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   6. The second stomach of a ruminating animal.
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   7. An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices
      others to bet or to bid; a decoy. [Cant]
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   8. (Automobiles) The metal cover or shield over the motor;
      predominantly British usage. In the U.S. it is called the
      {hood}. [Brit.]
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   {Bonnet limpet} (Zool.), a name given, from their shape, to
      various species of shells (family {Calyptr[ae]id[ae]}).

   {Bonnet monkey} (Zool.), an East Indian monkey ({Macacus
      sinicus}), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga.

   {Bonnet piece}, a gold coin of the time of James V. of
      Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. --Sir
      W. Scott.

   {To have a bee in the bonnet}. See under {Bee}.

   {Black bonnet}. See under {Black}.

   {Blue bonnet}. See in the Vocabulary.
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HOOD

   Hierarchical Object Oriented Design: a method for
   Architectural Design primarily for software to be developed in
   Ada, leading to automated checking, documentation and source
   code generation.
    

Hood
(Heb. tsaniph) a tiara round the head (Isa. 3:23; R.V., pl.,
"turbans"). Rendered "diadem," Job 29:14; high priest's "mitre,"
Zech. 3:5; "royal diadem," Isa. 62:3.
    

Hood -- U.S. County in Texas
   Population (2000):    41100
   Housing Units (2000): 19105
   Land area (2000):     421.610596 sq. miles (1091.966384 sq. km)
   Water area (2000):    15.189512 sq. miles (39.340655 sq. km)
   Total area (2000):    436.800108 sq. miles (1131.307039 sq. km)
   Located within:       Texas (TX), FIPS 48
   Location:             32.432285 N, 97.796232 W
   Headwords:
    Hood
    Hood, TX
    Hood County
    Hood County, TX
    

225 Moby Thesaurus words for "hood":
      Mafioso, SOB, Young Turk, apply to, bad boy, bastard, battler,
      beast, beldam, belligerent, belted knight, berserk, berserker,
      bickerer, blade, blanket, block, bomber, bonnet, booger, boot,
      bravo, brawler, breech, bruiser, brute, buffoon, bugger, bully,
      bullyboy, canopy, cap, ceil, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, coif,
      combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cope, cork, cover,
      cover up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling,
      creep, crown, curtain, cutup, demon, devil, disputant, dome,
      dragon, drape, drapery, duelist, eclipse, elf, enfant terrible,
      enforcer, fart, fencer, feuder, fiend, fighter, fighting cock,
      film, fire-eater, firebrand, foilsman, frock, funmaker, fury,
      gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, gown, guise, gun, gunsel,
      hanging, hardnose, hat, hatchet man, heel, hell-raiser, hellcat,
      hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hoodlum, hooligan, hothead,
      hotspur, housing, imp, incendiary, jacket, jerk, joker, jokester,
      jouster, killer, knave, knight, lay on, lay over, little devil,
      little monkey, little rascal, louse, mad dog, madcap, mantle, mask,
      meanie, militant, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, monster, mother,
      muffle, mug, mugger, muscle man, obduce, obscure, occult, overlay,
      overspread, pall, pill, pixie, plug-ugly, practical joker,
      prankster, puck, put on, quarreler, rapist, rapscallion, rascal,
      rat, revolutionary, rioter, rival, rodman, rogue, roof, roof in,
      rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, savage, scamp,
      scapegrace, scrapper, screen, scuffler, scum, she-wolf, shelter,
      shield, shirt, shit, shithead, shitheel, shoe, shroud, sock,
      spitfire, spread over, squabbler, stinkard, stinker, stocking,
      stopper, strong arm, strong-arm man, strong-armer, struggler,
      superimpose, superpose, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer,
      swordsman, termagant, terror, terrorist, thug, tiger, tigress,
      tilter, tip, top, torpedo, tough, tough guy, trigger man, turd,
      tussler, ugly customer, veil, vestment, violent, virago, vixen,
      wag, wild beast, witch, wolf, wrangler

    

HOOD

Red Riding, a brave little girl who escaped alive from a
wolf which had previously partaken of a relative.
    

HOOD

Robin, a fine robber of merry England who took from the
rich and gave to the poor, and made crackerjack material for
stories.
    

HOOD

Sarsaparilla, the manufacturer of another remedy for
Harvey's discovery.