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A leap; an elastic spring; a jump. A bound of graceful hardihood. Wordsworth.

Boyhood. [Obs.] T. Warton.

One that brawls; wrangler. Common brawler (Law), one who disturbs a neighborhood by brawling (and is therefore indictable at common law as a nuisance). Wharton.

The power of respiration, and hence, life. Hood. Thou takest away their breath, they die. Ps. civ. 29.

learly, the precise meaning depending largely on the substantive. A broad mixture of falsehood. Locke.

To make a brother of; to call or treat as a brother; to admit to a brotherhood. Sir W. Scott.

To shield; to defend. [Obs.] Can Oxford, that did ever fence the right, Now buckler falsehood with a pedigree Shak.

A venomous snake of India, of the genus Bungarus, allied to the cobras, but without a hood.

A cloaklike garment and hood woven in one piece, worn by Arabs.

The unwritten code of moral principles regulating the actions of the Japanese knighthood, or Samurai; the chivalry of Japan.

Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession. "The business of instruction." Prescott.

In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me. By foundation or by shady rivulet He sought them both. Milton.

A light carriage with low wheels, having a top or hood that can be raised or lowered, seats for inside, a separate seat for the driver, and often a movable front, so that it can be used as either an open or a close carriage. The baroness in a calash capable of holding herself, her two children, and her servants. W. Irv…

A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flaskike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.

A hood of other material than mail; esp. (Eccl.), a hood worn in church services, -- the amice, or the like.

etc., for shelter, commonly arranged in an orderly manner. Forming a camp in the neighborhood of Boston. W. Irving.

To know; to understand. [Obs.] I can rimes of Rodin Hood. Piers Plowman. I can no Latin, quod she. Piers Plowman. Let the priest in surplice white, That defunctive music can. Shak.

A hood-shaped bandage for the head, the shoulder, or the stump of an amputated limb.

Hooded; cowled.

A hood; especialy, the hood attached to the gown of a monk.