hoodn.1
/hʊd/, U.S. /hʊd/ 1. † c. by my hood: an asseveration. Obsolete.Actual reference uncertain.
a. A covering for the head and neck (sometimes extending to the shoulders) of soft or flexible material, either forming part of a larger garment (as the hood of a cowl or cloak) or separate; in the former case, it can usually be thrown back so as to hang from the shoulders down the back; in the latter sense it was applied in 14–16th cent. to a soft covering for the head worn by men under the hat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > covering spec parts of body > head and neck (and shoulders)
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hood
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a700 Epinal Gloss. 239 Capitium, hood.
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 199/18 Capitium, hod.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 6543 Þe hod hongede adun.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 284/209 Þis þeues with þis wide hodes.
c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 187 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 332 Als ich evere brouke min hod under min hat.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xxvi. 121 Hudes vsez þai nane.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 103 He was clad in coote and hood of greene.
1410 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 16 A grene Gowne and a hoyd percyd with Ray.
c1450 Urbanitatis (Calig. A.ii) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 13 Holde of þy cappe & þy hood also.
c1480 (a1400) Seven Sleepers 269 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 433 He..kist his hud done oure his face.
1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 266 Vpoun his heid come nother hat nor hude.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxiii He had on his head a whode.
a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) iii. sig. F2 A foole may dance in a hood, as wel as a wise man in a bare frock.
1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. ii. 222 Certaine jackets of leather with hoods upon them, such as travellers use in Italie.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 490 Then might ye see Cowles, Hoods and Habits with thir wearers tost And flutterd into Raggs. View more context for this quotation
1739 T. Gray Let. 25 Oct. in Corr. (1971) I. 125 We are..as well armed as possible against the cold, with muffs, hoods, and masks of bever.
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. i. 2 The girl pulled the hood of a cloak she wore, over her head and over her face.
b. A separate article of apparel for the head worn by women; (also) the close-fitting head-covering of an infant. French hood (see French hood n. 1).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hood > for woman
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hood > other
chaperonec1380
capadosc1400
riding hood1459
fool's hood1509
French hood1533
capuchon1604
Robin Hood1620
purse-hood1623
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mazarine hood1689
Nithsdale1716
rain hood1761
calash1774
capeline1868
bashlik1881
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pixie hood1939
c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems 201 For to kepe hire froom the heete, She weryth a daggyd hood of grene.
1533 J. Heywood Mery Play Pardoner & Frere sig. A.iiv Her bongrace which she ware with her french hode.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ci v The frenche hode, le chapperon a plis.
1541 in State Papers Henry VIII (1830) I. 695 To the Quenes Grace ye must appoynte six frenche hoods, with thappurtenaunces.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) ii. iii. sig. C.iiijv We shall go in our frenche hoodes euery day.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 17 The comyn strompettes that ware takene in London ware raye hoddes.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. vi Sh' is not in fashion, yet; she weares A hood: but 't stands a cop. View more context for this quotation
1636 Jackson in Hygiasticon To Translator For these loose times, when a strict sparing food More's out of fashion then an old French hood.
1667 S. Pepys Diary 27 Mar. (1974) VIII. 134 To put myself and wife..in mourning; and my two under-maids, to give them hoods and scarfs and gloves.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 271. ¶4 I was..in an Assembly of Ladies, where there were Thirteen different coloured Hoods.
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. i. 110 Her tattered mantle and her hood of straw.
1897 Civ. Serv. Supply Assoc. List Infant's Silk Hoods, Cashmere Hoods, White Knitted Hoods.
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene
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how mischance——?c1330
with mischance!c1330
by my hoodc1374
by my sheath1532
by the mouse-foot1550
what the (also a) goodyear1570
bread and salt1575
by Jove1575
in (good) truly1576
by these hilts1598
by the Lord Harry1693
by the pody cody1693
by jingo!1694
splutter1707
by jing!1786
I snore1790
declare1811
by the hokey1825
shiver my timbers1834
by the (great) horn spoon1842
upon my Sam1879
for goodness' sake1885
yerra1892
for the love of Mike1896
by the hokey fiddle1922
knickers1971
c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde v. 1151 I commende hire wisdom by myn hod!
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. xi. sig. Lv Onely for bothe. I wedde not, by my hood.
1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. vi. 51 Now by my hoode a gentle, and no Iew. View more context for this quotation
d. figurative. A cap of foam, mist, or cloud.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > a covering of mist
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > of cloud or mist
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > foam or surf > [noun] > sea-foam > cap of foam
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1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles iii. xvi. 102 Corryvrekin's whirlpool rude, When dons the Hag her whiten'd hood.
1841 in R. Chambers Pop. Rhymes Scotl. 149 When Ruberslaw puts on his cowl, The Dunion on his hood, Then a' the wives o' Teviotside Ken there will be a flood. [These are two hills.]
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a. As a mark of official, or professional dignity, worn by ecclesiastics, physicians, civic officials, etc.; (now) spec. the badge, varying in material, colour, and shape, worn over the gown (or surplice) by university graduates as indicating their degrees. Cf. amice n.2
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > garment or dress > headgear
hood1362
cap (also hat) of maintenancec1475
cocked hat1673
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hood > indicating office, profession, or degree
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1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 256 Þat Fisyk schal his Forred hode for his [foode] sulle, And eke his cloke of Calabre.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xx. 175 A Fisicien with a forred hode.
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xi. 282 The kynge..was cladde wyth the abbyt of religyon, and the hode vpon his hede.
1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Certayne Notes Ministracion f. xxxvii* Such hoodes as pertaineth to their seueral degrees.
1559 Inv. (Warw.) in Notes & Queries 12th Ser. II. 502/1 A crest cap and a wod to weyr upon his sholder iiij s.
1603 J. Stow Suruay of London (new ed.) 87 Whoodes of Budge for Clearks.
1603 Constit. & Canons Eccl. §58 Such Hoods as by the orders of the Universities are agreeable to their degrees.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 19/2 About the beginning of Queen Elizabeths Reign [Masters and Stewards of Incorporated Societies] cast them [Hoods] off their heads, and hung them on their shoulders.
1714 J. Byrom Let. 8 July in Private Jrnl. & Lit. Remains (1854) I. i. 26 We are to treat all our white-hoods, or Masters of Arts of two or three years' standing.
1868 W. B. Marriott Vestiarium Christianum 228.
1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages II. 640 At Paris [c1500] the Rectors wore violet or purple, the Masters scarlet, with tippets and hoods of fur. The hood was not originally restricted to Masters, being part of the ordinary clerical dress of the period, and was not even exclusively clerical. Bachelors of all Faculties wore hoods of lamb's wool or rabbit's fur.
1895 H. Rashdall Univ. Europe in Middle Ages II. 640 (note) At Oxford, undergraduates lost their hoods altogether in 1489.
b. The ornamental piece attached to the back of a cope, originally shaped like and used as a hood.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > cloak, mantle, or cape > parts of
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pin hood1491
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over-front1889
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 46 Ȝef þet he haueð an wid hod & an loke cape.
1509 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 112 I wole have in the whod theroff [a cope] the salutacion off our Lady.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) Cope..a wide vestment..open in front and fastened by a clasp, and with a hood at the back.
1890 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. July 73 A gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask..the coronation of the Virgin was figured in colored silks on the hood.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun]
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > hood
hoodc1275
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tippet armour1845
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 13791 [He] smat þane king a þene helm..and æc þere burne hod [c1300 Otho brunie-hod].
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 10297 Þai hurlit of his helme..Harmyt the hode, þat was of hard maile.
1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. 159 The hood of chain-mail drawn over and enveloping the head.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour vii. 110 This hauberk..had a hood or coif, of the same fabric with itself..; and over this hood, as a second defence for the head, the close-fitting iron helm was worn.
4. A covering of leather put over the head of a hawk to blind her when not pursuing game.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > falconry or hawking equipment > [noun] > hood
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c1575 Perfect Bk. Kepinge Sparhawkes (1886) 15 Put on an easy hoode in the dark..be suer the hode be esy.
1629 Leather 10 Sheath makers. Hawkes-Hood-makers. Scabberd-makers.
1826 J. S. Sebright Observ. Hawking (1828) 9.
1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus iv. 47 (note) The use of the hood at home is to keep the hawk quiet... In the field the hood prevents the hawk fluttering upon the fist every time that a bird rises.
5. Applied to various things serving for a covering, capping, or protection, or resembling a hood in shape or use.
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a. The straw covering of a beehive.
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b. A roof-like and often curved projection, e.g. over a window, door, bed, passage, etc.; the head or cover of a carriage; the cover of a pump; (Nautical) ‘a covering for a companion-hatch, skylight, etc.’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
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c. ‘A dome-shaped projection or canopy over a discharging or receiving orifice in a structure, as of a fireplace, chimney, or ventilator’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.); the ‘cowl’ of a chimney.
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d. Hydraulics. ‘The capping of the piles of a starling’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).
e. ‘The leathern shield in front of a wooden stirrup, which serves to protect the foot of the rider’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).
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f. Shipbuilding (in plural). The foremost and aftermost planks, within and without, of a ship's bottom.
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g. In plants: any hood-like part serving as a covering, esp. the vaulted upper part of the corolla or calyx in some flowers.
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h. In animals: a conformation of parts (as in the cobra and the hooded seal), or arrangement of colour about the head or neck, resembling or suggesting a hood.
i. = hood-sheaf n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick > part of
staddle?a1500
boll-roakinga1642
hood1658
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1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 68 You shall make the Hood with fine earth and Hay.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 386 A straw hood..to keep the wax and hony from melting in the Summer.
1750 T. R. Blanckley Naval Expositor Hood..to go on the Top of the Chimney..and to shift as the Wind does, that it [the smoke] may always fly out to leeward.
1765 Treat. Domest. Pigeons 115 [In the jacobine] the upper part of this range of feathers is called the hood.
1790 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties II. 438 Hoods, the covering sheaves of shucks: hood-sheaves.
1803 R. Percival Acct. Ceylon in Penny Cycl. (1840) XVI. 62/1 [The Cobra Capello] distends from its head a membrane in the form of a hood, from which it receives its name... When the hood is erected it completely alters the appearance of the head.
1815 W. Burney Falconer's New Universal Dict. Marine (rev. ed.) (at cited word) Naval Hoods, or Hawse-Bolsters,..large pieces of plank, or thick stuff, wrought above and below the hawse-holes.
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 201 Cuckoo-flowers just creeping from their hoods.
1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 683 The hood of the chaise struck against the projecting branch of a tree.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 363 Reptiles..Naia..hind head furnished with a hood; poisonous fangs in the upper jaw.
1831 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal I. 311 This operation..must be performed under the hood of a smith's forge-hearth.
1841 Penny Cycl. XXI. 164/2 (Seals) That the connection of the nostrils with this hood..indicate[s] its importance as ancillary to the sense of smelling.
1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 124 Hood,..a covering to shelter the mortar in bomb-vessels. In merchant ships it is the berthing round the ladder-way.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany vii. 87 Tiers of slated hoods protecting the windows.
c1860 H. Stuart Novices or Young Seaman's Catech. (rev. ed.) 65 What is the rabbet in the stem for? To receive the ends of the outside planks, which are called ‘fore hoods’.
1862 C. Darwin On Var. Contrivances Orchids Fertilised i. 29 The upper sepal and two upper petals form a hood.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hood of a pump, a frame covering the upper wheel of a chain-pump.
1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 15 Inner posts..for securing the after ends, or hoods, of the outside plank.
1883 W. H. Flower in Encycl. Brit. XV. 444/1 Cystophora..Beneath the skin over the face of the male..is a sac capable of inflation, when it forms a kind of hood covering the upper part of the head.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire The two end sheaves of the hattock are used as hoods for the remaining six.
1887 H. Caine Deemster I. xii. 243 There was no hood above the bed.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 32 He took me..to two newly dug graves, each covered with wooden hoods in a most business-like way.
j. A waterproof folding top or cover of a perambulator, motor vehicle, charabanc, etc.; the movable cover of a typewriter or other machine.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > front part > bonnet > folding top
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1866 Leisure Hour 15 349/1 Children are likely to be exposed for longer times to the scorching sun or the piercing wind in a perambulator (if without hood or sunshade) than when carried in arms.
1895 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 15 Sept. 1172 Perambulators..with..reversible jointed hood.
1904 A. B. F. Young Compl. Motorist (ed. 2) viii. 198 It is a fine-weather vehicle, but a hood can be supplied for use in wet weather.
1912 Motor Man. (ed. 14) iii. 101 Complete protection can be obtained with a hood by fitting side curtains, which can be let down.
1942 Short Guide Great Brit. (U.S. War Dept.) 26 The top of the car is the hood.
1967 R. Mollon Nursery Handbk. (1968) i. 37 Be sure that the pram..has a good waterproof hood.
1969 C. Campbell Sports Car (ed. 3) ix. 226 An open cockpit and an erect windscreen completely spoil the airflow pattern over a sports car and a higher maximum speed is always given with the hood erect.
1971 Daily Tel. 24 Nov. 11/4 The weather during the test was too unpleasant to try the MGB as it should really be driven, with the hood down.
k. In various animals, esp. Nautilus macromphalus (see quots.).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Tetrabranchiata > family Nautilidae > member of > parts of > outer portion of fore-foot
hood1883
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 674/1 This part of the external annular lobe of the fore-foot [of Nautilus] is called the ‘hood’.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 456 In Nautilus..the fore-foot is divisible into an outer and inner portion. The outer portion..is thickened dorsally where it abuts against the coil of the shell and forms the hood.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXV. 543/2 Movable (hinged) sclerite (so-called hood) [of Cryptostemma karschii] over~hanging the first pair of appendages.
1932 L. A. Borradaile & F. A. Potts Invertebrata xvi. 527 When the animal [sc. Nautilus] is retracted into the living chamber the hood acts as an operculum.
1967 H. W. Levi & L. R. Levi tr. A. Kaestner Invertebr. Zool. I. xv. 418 The sheaths of the dorsal (anterior) tentacles are fused into a hood that is used in Nautilus to cover most of the aperture when the body is withdrawn.
l. A covering for the head of a horse.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > covering for head
hooda1884
a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 461/1 Hood, that part of a horse blanket which covers the horse's head and neck.
1963 L. F. Bloodgood & P. Santini Horseman's Dict. 105 Hood, horse's head covering with eyeholes (with or without ear coverings) of serge, wool or rubber.
m. Photography. (See quot. 1918.) In full, lens hood n. at lens n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > parts and accessories of camera > [noun] > lens > lens cap > rim for carrying
hood1892
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 41 Have two caps for each lens, one to fit the hood and one to fit the other end of the mount.
1892 in L. de Vries Victorian Advts. (1968) 76/1 The ‘artist’, ¼-plate camera Containing Euryscope lens working at F/6, large Finder with Hood.
1918 Photo-Miniature Mar. 25 Lens hood, the detachable rim of a lens-tube somewhat larger in diameter and carrying the lens-cap. Also any separate device of tubular box- or bellows-form fitted to the lens-tube, to screen the lens from strong light.
1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 906/2 Voightländer cameras... Fitted with a large brilliant view finder and deep hood.
1961 G. Millerson Technique Television Production iii. 28 (caption) Interchangeable camera lenses with lens hoods.
n. Nautical. A structure which protects the steering gear.
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1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 550/1 Vessels which have a Monkey Forecastle forward,..a small poop or Hood aft to protect the steering gear.
o. A protecting cover, also sometimes acting as a reflector, placed over a lamp.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > protective cover for
bonnet1884
hood1907
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 260/3 Candle reading lamp. Telescopic corrugated hood.
1913 J. B. Bishop Panama Gateway v. vi. 382 The reflecting hood is provided with shading skirts, which prevent the glare of the lamp filament from penetrating into distance along the axis of the canal.
1939–40 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 277/3 The Reader. Chrome-plated with specially designed hood to shade light.
p. The bonnet of a motor vehicle. Originally and chiefly U.S.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > body or bodywork > front part > bonnet
car hood1883
bonnet1902
car bonnet1904
hood1929
1929 W. Faulkner Sartoris ii. vi. 145 He lifted the hood and removed the cap from the breather-pipe.
1960 Times 14 Sept. 12/6 You..discover that not only does the engine wear a hood instead of a bonnet but [etc.].
1970 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 26 Sept. 29/5 (advt.) A Rolls Royce whose hood was draped in white damask set with candelabra and plates.
q. A roughly shaped hat of felt, straw, or similar material for the hatter to shape by blocking or stitching.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > headgear > [noun] > hat > at specific stage of manufacture
hood1932
1932 D. C. Minter Mod. Needlecraft 159/1 Felt or felted hoods and hats are beaten, steamed, and moulded from the flat.
1963 P. Moyes Murder à la Mode vii. 122 The shapeless felt ‘hoods’ which would eventually be steamed and seamed into smart hats.
6. The hooded seal; = hood-cap n. 2.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Pinnipedia (seal, sea lion, or walrus) > [noun] > family Phocidae > genus Cystophora (hooded seal)
bedlamer1773
hooded seal1820
hood1854
hood-cap1864
1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 76 Four varieties of seal..the young harp and young hood, the old harp and the bedlamer, or old hood.
7. Proverbs and proverbial phrases. (See also ape n. 4, bone n.1 Phrases 1e.)
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c1400 Rom. Rose 7388 With so gret devotion They made her confession, That they had ofte, for the nones, Two hedes in one hood at ones.]
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iv. xix. 185 Alle þilke..þat hauen here hoodes wrong turned, and þat prosperitee hath blindfelled.
c1460 in R. Brotanek Mittelengl. Dichtungen MS 432 Trin. Coll. Dublin (1940) 128 Two fases in a hode is neuer to tryst.
c1510 Robin Hood vii, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. cxvii That he ne shall lese his hede, That is the best ball in his hode.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. x. sig. Ciii None better to beare two faces in a hood [1555 whood].
1551 T. Lever Serm. xiiii. December (new ed.) Epist. sig. A.vii These fflatterers be wonders perilous felowes, hauynge two faces vnder one hoode.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 289 Icetes had caried two faces in one hoode, and..was become a traytor.
1580 H. Gifford Posie of Gilloflowers ii. sig. L.2v Fortunes flattering vowes, Who in one hoode, a double face doth beare.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. i. 23 All Hoods, make not Monkes. View more context for this quotation
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Two Faces under one Hood, a Double Dealer.
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C1. General attributive.
hood-box n.
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1604 T. Middleton Father Hubburds Tales sig. F All my Packe contained in lesse then a litle Hood-boxe.
hood-fillet n.
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1894 H. Speight Nidderdale & Garden of Nidd 208 The hood-fillet is plain.
hood-hole n.
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1647 N. Ward Simple Cobler Aggawam 26 Women..peering out of their hood-holes.
hood-maker n.
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1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 231/2 Hode maker, faiseur de chaperons.
C2. † hood-skull n. Obsolete = sense 3.
hood-cover n.
hood dryer n. (see quot. 1966).
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > implements used in styling the hair > [noun] > hairdryer
hairdryer1888
dryer1937
hood dryer1962
blow-dryer1977
1962 Guardian 5 Dec. 6/4 Hairdryer, brush, comb and hood dryer.
1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 80/2 Hood dryer, a hair dryer in the form of a hood secured to a pedestal.
hood-end n. Shipbuilding (see quot. 1867).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > planking > foremost or aftmost planks > ends of
hooding-end1711
hood-end1867
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hood-ends, the ends of the planks which fit into the rabbets of the stem and stern posts.
hood-fend n. a protecting covering over a carriage, an opening, etc. (see sense 5).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > other parts of body of vessel > [noun] > opening in deck > cover of
hatchc1440
grating1678
hood-fend1804
hatch cover1811
1804 Naval Chron. 12 474 Several of the hood-fends opened.
hood-gastrula n. a form of secondary gastrula resulting from unequal segmentation, an amphigastrula.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > saclike embryo
hood-gastrula1879
1879 tr. E. Haeckel Evol. Man I. viii. 201 In common with Mammals, these animals exhibit unequal cleavage, and form a Hood-gastrula.
hood-jelly n. one of the Hydromedusae or acalephs proper.
hood-sheaf n. each of two sheaves placed slantwise on the top of a shock of corn so as to carry off the rain.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick > part of
staddle?a1500
boll-roakinga1642
hood1658
stall1688
well1710
staddle1743
hood-sheaf1799
tipple1799
hooding-sheaf1802
hooder1807
hackle1842
hay-hut1903
1799 J. Robertson Gen. View Agric. Perth 159 The two hood sheaves are..laid on in opposite directions, as a covering.
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 501 The wheat is invariably covered with ‘hood~sheaves’.
hood-shy adj. (see quot. 1886).
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1886 F. H. Salvin & W. Brodrick Falconry in Brit. Isles (new ed.) Gloss. 151 Hood-shy, a term used for Hawks that have been spoilt to the hood.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun]
helmc725
hoodc1275
crestc1325
iron hatc1330
testerc1386
helmet1470
cap1530
hood-skull1537
headpiecea1555
caska1586
mazer1605
casque1696
head cover1839
society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > helmet > [noun] > hood
hoodc1275
tippetc1400
hood-skull1537
tippet armour1845
1537 Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. *288 To the Kingis grace, ane Pissane of Mailye and ane Hudskule.
Derivatives
hood-like adj.
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1861 J. R. Greene Man. Animal Kingdom II. 124 A hood-like, crescentic fold of the ectoderm.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hoodn.2
/hʊd/, U.S. /hʊd/ = hoodlum n.
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society > authority > lack of subjection > unruliness > disorder or riot > [noun] > action or behaviour of gangs of hooligans > member of gang of hooligans
whitecap1607
shrove-prentice1638
Mohock?1711
sweater1712
highbinder1806
hoodlum1871
hooligan1898
hood1930
skolly1934
tear-away1938
gunsel1942
Teddy boy1954
hell's angel1956
angel1965
bikie1967
skinhead1969
bovver boy1970
boot-boy1977
casual1980
1930 Amer. Mercury Dec. 456/1 None of those St. Louie hoods are going to cut in here, see?
1934 J. T. Farrell Young Manhood Studs Lonigan xiv. 218 Jim Doyle stood by the kitchen sink, a cigar pasted in his round, jolly face, and he greeted them, calling them hoods.
1959 Manch. Guardian 5 Aug. 1/1 The ‘News’ suggests ‘a special committee to greet the Kremlin's No. 1 Hood at the Washington Airport’.
1966 P. G. Wodehouse Plum Pie vii. 177 The hood was beating the tar out of me.
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hoodn.3
/hʊd/, U.S. /hʊd/ slang (chiefly U.S., esp. in African-American usage).
Frequently with the. A neighbourhood or community, usually one's own; esp. an inner-city area. boys in the hood n. (also boyz in the hood) [popularized by the 1991 J. Singleton film Boyz N the Hood] the young men of such an area.
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1969 Trans-action Feb. 27/1 He come back over to the hood (neighborhood).
1970 D. Quammen To walk Line viii. 54 Greedy ol' cracker holdouts who seen their 'hoods go but wouldn't give up their house to no niggers.
1972 E. Grogan Ringolevio i. 54 There was this guy in the 'hood.
1988 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 26 June 1/1 Cooling out with the boys in the 'hood.
1992 N.Y. Times 21 Jan. a14/5 The boys in the 'hood are killing each other.
1994 Vibe Nov. 46 This one's for the cool in all of us who understand the mix: living in the 'hood and summering in the Hamptons.
2001 Southland (N.Z.) Times (Nexis) 16 Mar. 8 Steven Soderbergh's film Traffic has America trying to stop those nasty narcotics-laden Mexicans south of the border from corrupting its young (well, makes a change from the boyz in the hood being the fall guys).
Compounds
hood rat n. U.S. slang (originally and chiefly in African-American usage) (derogatory) a young person (esp. a woman) who lives in or comes from a deprived inner-city area and is regarded as disreputable or sexually promiscuous.
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1993 Philadelphia Tribune 25 June 7/3 ‘Menace II Society’ is replete with impeccable period dialogue... Sexist references to the local females as ‘hood rats’.
1996 Salt Lake Tribune (Nexis) 16 Aug. b2 He was a no-good, hood rat... He thinks he's bad.
2000 W. Shaw Westsiders 272 ‘She's a hoodrat. She's just a ho.’ Hoodrats, that's what Tibu calls the girls around here.
2011 D. Santiago Allure of Game 163 That's the problem with pregnant hood rats—they always bumpin' they gums.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hoodv.
/hʊd/, U.S. /hʊd/ a. transitive. To cover with or as with a hood: sometimes with the intention of protection or concealment.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > as with a hood or cowl
hoodc1420
cowl1810
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > headgear > other
bewimple1393
hoodc1420
hata1425
tire1539
bonnet1619
turban1822
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iii. 717 With cley & mosse here hedys hode & hyde.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 242/1 Hoodyn, capucio.
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 109 Valerius and his company..hudded them with their gownes ouer their heads.
1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 90 This is a shift that hoodeth some mens eies.
1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. xvii. 141 She began to hood her self with her Apron.
1810 G. Crabbe Borough i. 12 Their head the gown has hooded.
1826 J. S. Sebright Observ. Hawking (1828) 9 To hood a hawk, requires a degree of manual dexterity that is not easily acquired.
1852 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (1874) 43 When a Chetah is taken out for the purpose of hunting game, he is hooded.
b. To cap a shock of corn with two hood-sheaves (see hood n.1 Compounds 2).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > harvesting > harvest (a crop) [verb (transitive)] > make into stooks > cap stook
hood1825
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Hood-sheaf To Hood, Hude the corn, to cover a shock by putting on the hood-sheaves, S.
1856 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 17 ii. 480 Hooding or capping the sheaves is common in some parts.
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