1. A loose pliable covering for the head and neck, often attached to a robe or jacket.
2. an ornamental draping of cloth hung from the shoulders of an academic or ecclesiastical robe.
3. A sack placed over the head of a falcon to keep it quiet.
4. A metal cover or cowl for a hearth or stove.
5. A carriage top.
6. the hinged metal lid over the engine of a motor vehicle.
7. zoology an expanded part, crest, or marking on or near the head of an animal.
8. to supply or cover with a hood.
9. slang A hoodlum; a thug.
10. slang A rowdy or violent young person.
11. slang A neighborhood, usually in the inner city.

1. relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.
2. A covering such as worn over one’s head.
3. A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
4. an enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
5. A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
6. the hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle. also known as a bonnet in other countries.
7. gangster, thug. short for hoodlum.
8. abbreviation for hoodie, in the sense of a person wearing such a garment.
9. neighborhood.
10. A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
11. to cover something with a hood.

1. state; condition.
2. A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment.
3. A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.
4. A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl.
5. A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.
6. an ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment.
7. A covering for a horse's head.
8. A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. see Illust. of falcon.
9. anything resembling a hood in form or use.
10. the top or head of a carriage.
11. A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.
12. A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.
13. the top of a pump.
14. A covering for a mortar.
15. the hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet.
16. A covering or porch for a companion hatch.
17. the endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.
18. same as hoodlum.
19. same as neighborhood.
20. to cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
21. to cover; to hide; to blind.

1. to cover the head of with a hood; furnish with a hood: as, to hood a falcon; to hood a chimney.
2. hence to cover; hide; blind.
3. A suffix denoting ‘state, quality, character,’ as in childhood, boyhood, manhood, maidenhood, fatherhood, brotherhood, sisterhood, knighthood, priesthood, godhood, etc.
4. A covering for the head, of soft or flexible material, as cloth, leather, or chain-mail (in a suit of armor), usually extending over the back of the neck and sometimes the shoulders, and often attached to a garment worn about the body: as, the hood of a monk; the hood of an academic gown. see also cut under camail.
5. in falconry, a covering for the entire head of a hawk.
6. A cover of a carriage for the protection of its occupants, made so that it can be folded or turned back, or removed.
7. something that resembles a hood in form, position, or use, as the upper petal or sepal of certain flowers, a chimney-cowl, etc.; specifically, in zoology, a conformation of parts or an arrangement of color on or about the head, like or likened to a hood. see phrases under hooded.
8. the hooded seal, Cystophora cristata.
9. in ship-building, the foremost and aftermost planks of a ship's bottom, both inside and outside.
10. the rise in the quarter-deck which gives more head-room to the cabin.
11. A covering over a hatchway to protect the openingfrom the weather.
12. A projecting shelter-like canopy over an outer door, usually carried by corbels or brackets. see hoodmold.
13. A similar projecting member over a hearth, intended to direct the smoke inward toward the flue.
14. in modern ventilation, a projection above a range or furnace, intended to carry off the smell of cooking or noxious gases.
15. in chemical laboratories, a fixed appliance consisting of an inclosed and covered space within which offensive gases or vapors may be evolved and carried off by a connected flue without escaping into the room. it is usually provided with a sliding or hinged door in front for the introduction and removal of apparatus.
16. A curved cover for a machine or for any part of one.
17. the cover for a blacksmith's forge.
18. in electricity, a protecting cover, also sometimes serving as a reflector, placed over an are-lamp.

1. an aggressive and violent young criminal
2. (falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head
3. cover with a hood
4. a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera
5. a protective covering that is part of a plant
6. the folding roof of a carriage
7. protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
8. metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
9. (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
10. a headdress that protects the head and face
11. (slang) a neighborhood