Hood v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hooded p. pr. & vb. n. Hooding.]
  1. To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
     The friar hooded, and the monarch crowned.   --Pope.
  2. To cover; to hide; to blind.
  While grace is saying, I'll hood mine eyes
  Thus with my hat, and sigh and say, “Amen.”   --Shak.
  Hooding end Shipbuilding, the end of a hood where it enters the rabbet in the stem post or stern post.
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  Hood·ed, a.
  1. Covered with a hood.
  2. Furnished with a hood or something like a hood.
  3. Hood-shaped; esp. Bot., rolled up like a cornet of paper; cuculate, as the spethe of the Indian turnip.
  4. Zool. (a) Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds. (b) Having a hoodlike crest or prominence on the head or neck; as, the hooded seal; a hooded snake.
  Hooded crow, a European crow Corvus cornix; -- called also hoody, dun crow, and royston crow.
  Hooded gull, the European black-headed pewit or gull.
  Hooded merganser. See Merganser.
  Hooded seal, a large North Atlantic seal (Cystophora cristata). The male has a large, inflatible, hoodlike sac upon the head. Called also hoodcap.
  Hooded sheldrake, the hooded merganser. See Merganser.
  Hooded snake. See Cobra de capello, Asp, Haje, etc.
  Hooded warbler, a small American warbler (Sylvania mitrata).
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