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Having no hood.

A young rowdy; a rough, lawless fellow. [Colloq. U.S.]

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

An old term for blindman's buff. Shak.

One who causes bad luck. [Colloq.]

To blind by covering the eyes. We will blind and hoodwink him. Shak.

The hooded crow; also, in Scotland, the hooded gull.

The horny substance or case that covers or terminates the feet of certain animals, as horses, oxen, etc. On burnished hooves his war horse trode. Tennyson.

Having a dry and contracted hoof, which occasions pain and lameness.

Furnished with hoofs. Grew.

Destitute of hoofs.

metal, or other hard material, formed or bent into a curve or at an angle, for catching, holding, or sustaining anything; as, a hook for catching fish; a hook for fastening a gate; a boat hook, etc.

Having a strongly curved bill.

Having a hooked or aquiline nose. Shak.

A pipe with a long, flexible stem, so arranged that the smoke is cooled by being made to pass through water.

Spur gearing having teeth slanting across the face of the wheel, sometimes slanting in opposite directions from the middle.

A universal joint. See under Universal.

Having the form of a hookl curvated; as, the hooked bill of a bird.

The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

One who, or that which, hooks.