Word Finder - hood

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A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

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A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.

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An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.

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A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.

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The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle: known as a bonnet in other countries.

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A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.

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To cover something with a hood.

She yanked his hood off.

A hood made of rough material was thrown over her head and her hands bound before she could scream.

I put on my cloak and hood and went out.

He pounded his fists on the hood of a car, putting deep dents in the metal.

Heidi, Little Red Riding Hood – I wish you'd get your characters straight.

He removed his hood and mask and inched away from the stranger.

She tugged the hood back over her head and glanced at Josh.

She has made me repeat the story of little Red Riding Hood so often that I believe I could say it backward.

As they left the tavern in the twilight of the dawn, Rostov and Ilyin both glanced under the wet and glistening leather hood of the doctor's cart, from under the apron of which his feet were sticking out, and in the middle of which his wife's nightcap was visible and her sleepy breathing audible.

The large man in black with lopsided shoulders and an executioner's hood pressed himself into a corner.

With a rush of blood to her face, she realized the hood had slipped off her head.

One was parked beside the building with its hood up, and an old mustang sat at the pump.

He pushed the hood back first and shivered at the breeze that ruffled his dark hair.

Artists have been known to use the left hand in the hope of checking the fatal facility which practice had conferred on the right; and if Hood had been able to place under some restraint the curious and complex machinery of words and syllables which his fancy was incessantly producing, his style would have been a great gainer, and much real earnestness of object, which now lies confused by the brilliant kaleidoscope of language, would have remained definite and clear.

This was the lesson that Thomas Hood left behind him.

At the last moment he assumed the hood of the strictest order of hermits, and died as the monk Jonah.

In fact, it does for the Robin Hood cycle what a few years before Sir Thomas Malory had done for the Arthurian romances - what in the 6th century B.C. Peisistratus is said to have done for the Homeric poems.

Just then a closed carriage and another with a hood drove up to the porch.

Ving pulled up and barely made it out of the car before Rainy grabbed him and slammed him over the hood.

When he freed her again, she approached him and touched his hood.

The life died from Two's eyes, and he replaced his hood.

Hauling her to the bed, he shook out a pillow from its case and draped the case over her head like a hood.

I thought I would go as the big bad wolf, if you'll be my little red riding hood?

The band broke into "Hey There Little Red Riding Hood".

She ducked and the ball of ice grazed off her hood.

A gust of wind tore the hood from her head and snatched at her hair.

In 1821 Mr John Scott, the editor of the London Magazine, was killed in a duel, and that periodical passed into the hands of some friends of Hood, who proposed to make him sub-editor.

Hood, and on the 30th of November he fought with General Hood the desperate and indecisive battle of Franklin.

The figures are no longer abstractions; they are concrete examples of the folly of the bibliophile who collects books but learns nothing from them, of the evil judge who takes bribes to favour the guilty, of the old fool whom time merely strengthens in his folly, of those who are eager to follow the fashions, of the priests who spend their time in church telling "gestes" of Robin Hood and so forth.

The remaining parts of the perianth are very much smaller, and commonly are so arranged as to form a hood overarching the "column."

Head broad, surrounded by a funnel-shaped velum or hood; no radula; dorsal appendages foliaceous.

In numerous documents from the 12th to the 15th century the almucium is mentioned, occasionally as identical with the hood, but more often as a sort of cap distinct from it, e.g.

The introduction of the biretta in the 15th century tended to replace the use of the almuce as a head-covering, and the hood now became smaller, while the cape was enlarged till in some cases it fell below the elbows.

The "grey amice" of the canons of St Paul's at London was put down in 1549, the academic hood being substituted.

The oldest mention of Robin Hood at present known occurs in the second edition - what is called the B text - of Piers the Plowman, the date of which is about 1377.

Of the ballads themselves, Robin Hood and the Monk is possibly as old as the reign of Edward II.

For our part, we are not disinclined to believe that the Robin Hood story has some historical basis, however fanciful and romantic the superstructure.

We parallel it with the Arthurian story, and hold that, just as there was probably a real Arthur, however different from the hero of the trouveres, so there was a real Hood, however now enlarged and disguised by the accretions of legend.

And possibly enough Hood was contemporary with that earl, who "flourished" in the reigns of Richard I., John and Henry III.

In the rolls of parliament of 1437 mention is made of Piers Venables, a robber who took to the woods "like as it had been Robin Hood and his meyne."

Robin Hood is Hod, the god of the wind, a form of Woden; Maid Marian is Morgen, the dawn-maiden; Friar Tuck is Toki, the spirit of frost and snow."

Hood is a very usual dialectal form of wood; and in his play Edward the First, George Peele actually alludes to the bandit as "Robin of the Wood."

How certain it is that the Robin Hood story attracted to it and appropriated other elements is illustrated by its subsequent history - its history after the 14th century.

Robin Hood is at that time the people's ideal as Arthur is that of the upper classes.

The best collections of Robin Hood poems are those of Ritson (8vo, 1795) and Gutch (2nd ed., 1847), and of Professor Child in the 5th volume of his invaluable English and Scotch Popular Ballads (Boston, 1888).

The literary and artistic value of many of the Robin Hood ballads cannot be pronounced considerable, but eight of them attain the high-water mark of their class.

Robin Hood and the Monk and Guy of Gisborne are perhaps the best.

Hood's attack (battle of Peachtree Creek, July 20) was everywhere repulsed, and Schofield and McPherson closed up at the greatest speed.

Hood had to retire to Atlanta, with a loss of more than 4000 men, and the three Union armies gradually converged on the north and east sides of the city.

But Hood, who had been put in command as a fighting general, was soon ready to attack afresh.