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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hood \Hood\, 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. The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned. --Pope. 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.'' --Shak. {Hooding end} (Shipbuilding), the end of a hood where it enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Hooded \Hood"ed\, a. 1. Covered with a hood. 2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood. 3. Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip. 4. (Zo["o]l.) a Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds. b Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as the hooded seal; a hooded snake. {Hooded crow}, a European crow (Corvus cornix); -- called also {hoody}, {dun crow}, and {royston crow}. {Hooded gull}, the European black-headed pewit or gull. {Hooded merganser}. See {Merganser}. {Hooded seal}, a large North Atlantic seal ({Cystophora cristata}). The male has a large inflatible, hoodlike sac upon the head. Called also {hoodcap}. {Hooded sheldrake}, the hooded merganser. See {Merganser}. {Hooded snake}. See {Cobra de capello}, {Asp}, {Haje}, etc {Hooded warbler}, a small American warbler ({Sylvania mitrata}).
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