2. Verb. (third-person singular of hood) ¹
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Definition of Hoods
1. hood [v] - See also: hood
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoods
Literary usage of Hoods
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"Those hoods ! " she said—" we call those hoods Uglies ! Captain Hicks." Oh, how pretty she looked as she said it ! The blue eyes looked up under the blue ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"Corona-hoods unappendaged or with a thickened crest-like keel. Twining vines. ... Corona of 5 concave erect or spreading hoods, each bearing ..."
3. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"hoods saccate, pointless, more or less depending, lower than the anthers, open wholly or partly down the back, as if '2-valved. ..."
4. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1886)
"+i- hoods remote from the anthers, at the base of the long column. 3. ... ++ ++ hoods approximate to the anthers: corolla in anthesis patent or reflexed. ..."
5. The Modern Factory: Safety, Sanitation and Welfare by George Moses Price (1914)
"For the ordinary dusty processas or machines, hoods are constructed of wood ... The proper construction and adjustment of the hoods is a science by itself. ..."
6. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"UNIVERSITY hoods.—Can any reader tell me where it is possible to get a list of the colours of the hoods of the different universities ? FC MORGAN. ..."