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A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, knighthood, brotherhood. Sometimes it is written, chiefly in obsolete words, in the form - head.

State; condition. [Obs.] How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood Spenser.

g over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; -- called also hood mold.

See Hooded seal, under Hooded.

Covered with a hood.

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.

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.

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.