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The rank or state of a squire; squireship. Swift.

The quality or state of being stalworth; stalwartness; boldness; daring. [Obs.]

The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.

The character or dignity of a thane; also, thanes, collectively. J. R. Green.

Thanehood. E. A. Freeman.

The female of the bullfinch; -- called also tonyhoop. [Prov. Eng.]

To remove a hood or disguise from. Quarterly Rev.

Absence of likelihood.

Absence or lack of manhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Untriftiness. [Obs.] Spenser.

Virginity; maidenhood.

The state of being a widower.

ow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower. Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years. Leslie Stephen.

Womanhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Wifehood. [Obs.] Spenser.

hing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson.

The quality or state of being a youth; the period of youth. Cheyne.

In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person). "Have you much money about you" Bulwer.

A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.

The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous.