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A long cloak or overcoat, especially one with a hood.

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

A capoch or hood. [Obs.] Spenser.

Cover with, or as with, a hood. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A garment for women, consisting of a cloak and hood, resembling, or supposed to resemble, that of capuchin monks.

A woman's short cloak with a hood. Where's your cardinal! Make haste. Lloyd.

l to answer; to defy. I challenge any man to make any pretense to power by right of fatherhood. Locke.

A possibity; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him. So weary with disasters, tugged with fortune. That I would get my life on any chance, To mend it, or be rid on't Shak.

A hood; especially, an ornamental or an official hood. His head and face covered with a chaperon, out of which there are but two holes to look through. Howell.

ered at the feet of man like flowers. Wordsworth. Sisters of Charity (R. C. Ch.), a sisterhood of religious women engaged in works of mercy, esp. in nursing the sick; -- a popular designation. There are various orders of the Sisters of Charity.

ons of prosterity and adversity. Our minds are, as it were, checkered with truth and falsehood. Addison.

A member of certain orders of knighthood. Chevalier d'industrie ( Etym: [F.], one who lives by persevering fraud; a pickpocket; a sharper. -- The Chevalier St. George (Eng. Hist.), James Francis Edward Stuart (son of James II.), called "The Pretender." -- The Young Chevalier, Charles Edward Stuart, son of the Chevalie…

purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.

The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry. Dryden.

surly, ill-bred man; a boor. A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood. Sir P. Sidney.

Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object. Hills of circumdenudation, hills which have been produced by surface erosion; the elevations which have been left, after denudation of a mass of high ground. Jukes.

In a clammy manner. "Oozing so clammily." Hood.

especially of the clergy; hence, the clerical profession. Appeals were made to the priesthood. Would they tamely permit so gross an insult to be offered to their cloth Macaulay. The cloth, the clergy, are constituted for administering and for giving the best possible effect to . . . every axiom. I. Taylor. Body cloth.…

The hooded snake (Naia tripudians), a highly venomous serpent inhabiting India.

To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.] I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. Shak.