n. The state of being an angel; angelic nature. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being an ape. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Apprenticeship. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Babyhood. [ R. ] Udall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or period of infancy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or nature of a beast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Goodness; generosity. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Boy + -hood. ] The state of being a boy; the time during which one is a boy. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Brother + -hood. ] 1. The state of being brothers or a brother. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An association for any purpose, as a society of monks; a fraternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The whole body of persons engaged in the same business, -- especially those of the same profession; as, the legal or medical brotherhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Persons, and, poetically, things, of a like kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

A brotherhood of venerable trees. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Fraternity; association; fellowship; sodality. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. cildhād; cild child + -hād. See Child, and -hood. ] 1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty. [ 1913 Webster ]

I have walked before you from my childhood. 1. Sam. xii. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Children, taken collectively. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The well-governed childhood of this realm. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The commencement; the first period. [ 1913 Webster ]

The childhood of our joy. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable from old age. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Nothingness. [ R. ] Goodwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a cub. [ Jocose ] “From cubhood to old age.” W. B. Dawkins. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a deacon; office of a deacon; deaconship. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of the dead. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Affliction; dreariness. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Fairness; beauty. [ Obs. ] Foxe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ False + -hood ] 1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction of the wheel which moveth it. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A deliberate intentional assertion of what is known to be untrue; a departure from moral integrity; a lie. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Treachery; deceit; perfidy; unfaithfulness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Betrayed by falsehood of his guard. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. [ 1913 Webster ]

For his molten image is falsehood. Jer. x. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

No falsehood can endure
Touch of celestial temper. Milton.

Syn. -- Falsity; lie; untruth; fiction; fabrication. See Falsity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being a father; the character or authority of a father; paternity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou, who hast thyself
Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Enmity. Bp. Bedell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being foolhardy; foolhardiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The qualities or condition of a gentleman. [ R. ] Thackeray.

n. State or time of being a girl. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ God + -hood. Cf. Godhead. ] Divine nature or essence; deity; godhead. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Goodness; grace; goodliness. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. A state of greenness; verdancy. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hardy + -hood. ] Boldness, united with firmness and constancy of mind; bravery; intrepidity; also, audaciousness; impudence. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is the society of numbers which gives hardihood to iniquity. Buckminster.

Syn. -- Intrepidity; courage; pluck; resolution; stoutness; audacity; effrontery; impudence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office, dignity, or position of a high priest. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being a hoiden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hood, hod, AS. hōd; akin to D. hoed hat, G. hut, OHG. huot, also to E. hat, and prob. to E. heed. √13. ] 1. State; condition. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

How could thou ween, through that disguised hood
To hide thy state from being understood? Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Shipbuilding) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover; to hide; to blind. [ 1913 Webster ]

While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyes
Thus with my hat, and sigh and say, “Amen.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hooding end (Shipbuilding), the end of a hood where it enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. [ shortened from hoodlum. ] Same as hoodlum. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

2. [ shortened from neighborhood. ] Same as neighborhood. [ slang ] [ PJC ]

[ OE. hod, had, hed, hede, etc., person, rank, order, condition, AS. hād; akin to OS. hēd, OHG. heit, G. -heit, D. -heid, Goth. haidus manner; cf. Skr. kētu brightness, cit to appear, be noticeable, notice. √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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Hooded seal, under Hooded. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Covered with a hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hood-shaped; esp. (Bot.), rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Zool.) (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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow; colloquially, called also hood. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Just tell your hoodlum friends outside
You ain't got time to take no ride. Yakety-Yak (Song) [ PJC ]

n. The person blindfolded in the game called hoodman-blind. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An old term for blindman's buff. Shak.

{ } (Arch.) A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Perh. a var. of voodoo. ] 1. One who causes bad luck. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Same as voodoo. [ PJC ]

3. Bad luck. [ PJC ]

v. t. To be a hoodoo to; to bring bad luck to by occult influence; to bewitch. [ Colloq., U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A natural rock pile or pinnacle of fantastic shape. [ Western U. S. ] “I watched for hours as the shadows moved through the hoodoos in Bryce Canyon park.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. Voodoo, a form of religion practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (esp. Haiti); it involves witchcraft and animistic deities.
Syn. -- voodoo, vodoun, voodooism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. [ Hood + wink. ] 1. To blind by covering the eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

We will blind and hoodwink him. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover; to hide. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To deceive by false appearance; to impose upon. “Hoodwinked with kindness.” Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The hooded crow; also, in Scotland, the hooded gull. [ 1913 Webster ]