hooded, a.
(ˈhʊdɪd)
[f. hood n.1 and v.]
1. a. Wearing or covered with a hood, having a hood on.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 242/1 Hodyd, capiciatus. 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 358 (R.) He went hooded, as it were with his robe cast over his head. a 1621 Beaum. & Fl. Thierry & Theod. v. ii, He can sleep no more Than a hooded hawk. 1687 Dryden Hind & P. iii. 1024 And sister Partlet with her hooded head, Was hooted hence. 1734 Pope Ess. Man iv. 198 The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. 1873 Ouida Pascarèl I. 146 A little laughing group of sightseers, cloaked and hooded. |
† b. hooded man: (a) A Lollard: see quot. 1460; (b) a native Irishman: see quot. 1596. Obs.
| 1460 J. Capgrave Chron. (Rolls) 244 Hodid men were cleped then thoo Lolardis, that wold nevir avale here hood in presens of the Sacrament. [1596 Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 631/2 For a theif it [the Irish mantle] is soe hand⁓some..he can in his mantell pass through any toune or company, being close hooded over his head..from knowledge of any to whom he is endaungered.] 1621 Bolton Stat. Irel. 5 (Act 18 Hen. VI) That no Lord..shall bring or lead..Hoblors, kearnes, or hooded men. 1641 Relat. Answ. Earl Strafford 29 The Kings owne Souldiers..could in no construction bee called Irish-Rebells, English-Enemies, or Hooded-men. |
c. Of a garment: Having a hood attached to or forming part of it.
| 1590 Marlowe Edw. II, i. iv, He wears a short Italian hooded cloak. 1816 Wordsw. French Army in Russia 5 Humanity..Hath painted Winter..In hooded mantle, limping o'er the plain. 1866–7 J. Thomson Poems, Naked Goddess 115 Vestal sister's hooded gown. |
2. Of animals: Having a conformation of parts or an arrangement of colour resembling or suggesting a hood; hooded crow, Corvus Cornix (see also quot. 1893); hooded seal, see hood-cap 2; hooded serpent or snake, a snake of the family Elapidæ or Najidæ, having the power of distending the elastic skin of the neck, so as to resemble a hood or cowl: esp. the Indian cobra, Naja tripudians.
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xxxiii. 71 The hudit crawis his hair furth ruggit. 1549 Compl. Scot. vi. 39 The huddit crauis cryit varrok varrok. 1638 Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 347 The Dodo..her head is variously drest, the one halfe hooded with downy blackish feathers; the other, perfectly naked. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. IV. 126 The cobra di capello or hooded serpent. 1785 Latham Gen. Syn. Birds III. ii. 426 Hooded M[erganser]... Size nearly that of a Wigeon. 1802 Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) II. 461 The Hooded or Spectacle Snake. When it is irritated or preparing to bite, this animal..seems, as it were, hooded by the expanded skin of the neck: hence its name of Cobra di Capello, or Hooded Serpent. 1820 Scoresby Acc. Arctic Reg. I. 511 The Hooded Seal is common near Spitzbergen. 1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 62/2 We owe to Dr. Cantor..the introduction of a new genus of hooded snakes, Hamadryas. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 421/1 The Mitred Basilisk occurs in Guiana, the Hooded Basilisk in Amboyna. 1890 Ld. Lugard Diary 15 Mar. (1959) I. 144, I saw here [sc. in East Africa] the large hooded raven. 1893 Newton Dict. Birds 117 The so-called ‘Hooded Crow’ of India, C[orvus] splendens, is not very nearly allied to its European namesake. 1938 Brit. Jrnl. Psychol. XXVIII. 334 Of the progeny of the hooded rats..I took at random six females. 1942 C. Barrett On Wallaby iv. 78 Hooded crows were on parade long before reveille. 1954 M. K. Wilson tr. Lorenz's Man meets Dog x. 107 Our hooded capuchin, Gloria,..was rather larger than a cat. 1955 Arctic Terms 40/1 Hooded seal, a large seal, Cystophora cristata, of the North Atlantic, dark in color with a unique inflatable muscular bag on its nose. Also called ‘bladder⁓nose’. 1961 Coast to Coast 1959–60 62 I've heard that there is a place hereabouts which is a haunt of the hooded robin. 1972 Country Life 17 Feb. 381/1 The hooded crow, or hoodie, as it is commonly called in Scotland where the grey-mantled bird is seen as often as..the ordinary..crow. |
3. Of a corolla or other part: Hood-shaped, cucullate; hence, of a flower or plant: Having a hood-shaped corolla, calyx, etc., as hooded matweed, hooded willow-herb, etc.
| 1597 Gerarde Herbal i. xxviii. §2. 38 Hooded Mat weede. 1665 Hooke Microgr. 128 Round and uniform heads, very much resembling the form of hooded Mushroms. 1668 Wilkins Real Char. 96 Having Hooded flowers. 1834 M. Howitt Sk. Nat. Hist. (1851) 83 Here too the spotted Arum green, A hooded mystery, is seen. 1861 Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. IV. 205 Common Skull-cap..is also called Hooded Willow-herb. |
4. Having a hood or protective covering.
| 1847 Disraeli Tancred ii. xi, The porter rose from his hooded chair. 1859 Reeve Brittany 236 A curious hooded house. 1868 Holme Lee B. Godfrey iv. 19 The Cheap Jack's hooded cart. |
5. transf. and fig. a. Covered, enveloped. b. Blindfolded, hoodwinked. c. Covered up, concealed.
| 1652 Peyton Catastr. Ho. Stuarts (1731) 36 We are hooded, and cannot see that God hath done miraculous Works. a 1653 G. Daniel Idyll iii. 90 The Lust of Tyrants (over-banded still By hooded Law) carnalls the world at Will. 1695 Sibbald Autobiog. (1834) 127, I..came into the world hooded (as they call it) with the after birth upon my head. 1866 B. Taylor Poems, The Neighbor, Beneath the cloaked and hooded sky. |