Word Meanings - HOOD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern. (more info) 1. State; condition. How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood Spenser. 2. A covering or garment for the head or the head
Additional info about word: HOOD
The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern. (more info) 1. State; condition. How could thou ween, through that disguised hood To hide thy state from being understood Spenser. 2. A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment; especially: A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed. A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl. "All hoods make not monks." Shak. A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure. An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood. A covering for a horse's head. A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon. 3. Anything resembling a hood in form or use; as: The top or head of a carriage. A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind. A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue. The top of a pump. A covering for a mortar. The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet. Gray. A covering or porch for a companion hatch.
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- BELLMAN
A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton. - BELIAL
An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12. - BESCRATCH
To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches. - BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - BEWRAP
To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax. - PLANKING
1. The act of laying planks; also, planks, collectively; a series of planks in place, as the wooden covering of the frame of a vessel. 2. The act of splicing slivers. See Plank, v. t., 4. - BERGOMASK
A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. - BEVELMENT
The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - BETSO
A small brass Venetian coin. - BESCORN
To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - STERNFOREMOST
With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell. - BELLADONNA
An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - BECHE DE MER
The trepang. - BETROTHAL
The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow. - STERNUTATORY
Sternutative. -- n. - BESLUBBER
To beslobber. - COMBER
1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave. - GABBER
1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk. - HAIRBELL
See HAREBELL - ORBED
Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench. - GERBE
A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow. - LAMBERT PINE
The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - GABELER
A collector of gabels or taxes. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - ABERRATE
To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey. - CORYMBED
Corymbose.