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The state of being a master; hence, disposition to command or hector. C. Bronté.

The state of being a matron.

The character or condition of a monk. Atterbury.

A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite.

The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.

f being or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton.

The state or condition of being an orphan; orphanage.

The state of being a page.

The state of a parent; the office or character of a parent.

Apprenticehood. [Obs.] This jolly prentice with his master bode Till he was out nigh of his prenticehood. Chaucer.

The office or character of a priest; the priestly function. Bk. of Com. Prayer.

Princeliness. [Obs.] E. Hall.

The time or state of being a puppy; the time of being young and undisciplined.

The state, personality, or character of a queen; queenliness. Tennyson.

The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller.

A kind of hood for a hawk.

onsidered collectively. It was supposed he felt no call to anu expedition that might sainthood. Sir W. Scott.

Existence as a separate self, or independent person; conscious personality; individuality. Bib. Sacra.

Serfage.

r duty of a sister. She . . . abhorr'd Her proper blood, and left to do the part Of sisterhood, to do that of a wife. Daniel.