Dictionary Entry
hood
hood is a 4-letter English word with 31 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 7 · 31 senses
Definitions
- 1
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.
- 2noun
State; condition.
- 3noun
A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment
- 4noun
A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.
- 5noun
A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl.
- 6noun
A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.
- 7noun
An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.
- 8noun
A covering for a horse's head.
- 9noun
A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon.
- 10noun
Anything resembling a hood in form or use
- 11noun
The top or head of a carriage.
- 12noun
A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.
- 13noun
A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.
- 14noun
The top of a pump.
- 15noun
A covering for a mortar.
- 16noun
The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet.
- 17noun
A covering or porch for a companion hatch.
- 18noun
The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.
- 19transitive verb
To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
- 20transitive verb
To cover; to hide; to blind.
- 21noun
(zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal
- 22noun
protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine
"there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars"
"the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair the plane's engine"
- 23noun
a headdress that protects the head and face
- 24noun
the folding roof of a carriage
- 25noun
metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts smoke or fumes
- 26noun
(falconry) a leather covering for a hawk's head
- 27noun
a tubular attachment used to keep stray light out of the lens of a camera
- 28noun
(slang) a neighborhood
- 29noun
a protective covering that is part of a plant
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- 30noun
an aggressive and violent young criminal
- 31verb
cover with a hood
"The bandits were hooded"
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