1. (n.) State; condition.

2. (n.) A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment

3. (n.) A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.

4. (n.) A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl.

5. (n.) A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.

6. (n.) An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.

7. (n.) A covering for a horse's head.

8. (n.) A covering for a hawk's head and eyes.

9. (n.) Anything resembling a hood in form or use

10. (n.) The top or head of a carriage.

11. (n.) A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.

12. (n.) A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.

13. (n.) The top of a pump.

14. (n.) A covering for a mortar.

15. (n.) The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet.

16. (n.) A covering or porch for a companion hatch.

17. (n.) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.

18. (v. t.) To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.

19. (v. t.) To cover; to hide; to blind.

20. (n.) 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.

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