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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hooded
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
crow
▪ I knew that there is no death worse for an eagle than death at the beaks of hooded crows.
▪ The harsh cruel calls of hooded crows.
▪ It is a sorry thing when an eagle can not even ward off two miserable hooded crows.
▪ A third hooded crow joined them.
▪ Perhaps the hooded crows thought it was a game, perhaps they misjudged his skill and speed.
▪ His anger at her taking his carrion was gone and instead focused on the miserable hooded crows.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a hooded sweatshirt
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another night at some scruffy place full of hooded locals, we spent £15 on similar dishes.
▪ Here she wears number 72, a black silk crêpe hooded sheath dress and black satin shoes.
▪ His eyes were hooded and white spittle had formed at the corners of his mouth.
▪ Otherwise, out of doors, more practical hooded cloaks were worn over knee-length tunics.
▪ Something about his eyes was hooded, making his eyes, briefly, resemble hers.
▪ The glitter in his hooded eyes made it impossible for her to hazard even the wildest guess at what he was thinking.
▪ The killer had a light, hooded top.
▪ There was a drawing of an axe with a hooded figure swinging the weapon over his head.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hooded

Hood \Hood\ (h[oo^]d), 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.

Hooded

Hooded \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. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; -- said of birds.

    2. 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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hooded

  1. 1 wearing a hood 2 covered with a hood 3 shaped like a hood 4 (context of an animal English) having a crest or similar elastic skin in the neck area 5 (context of clothing English) fitted with a hood v

  2. (en-past of: hood)

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Usage examples of "hooded".

He strapped on his Smith and Wesson, shrugged into his jacket and put the aerosol can in one pocket and the hooded torch in the other.

By the time she stepped onto dirt he was sliding swiftly alongshore, heading for a small knot of hooded and robed Funor about halfway back to the rivermouth.

Theluk stared challengingly at Arad and I saw Falkyr watching with hooded eyes.

The robber that accosted Brother Francis was not in any obvious way one of the malformed, but that he came from the Valley of the Misborn was made evident when two hooded figures arose from behind a tangle of brush on the slope that overlooked the trail and hooted mockingly at the monk from ambush, while aiming at him with drawn bows.

They had brought with them a thing of the Great World, Hresh carrying one end and Taniane the other: that hollow tube of metal, hooded at one end, with a region of incomprehensible blackness held captive within that hood, and brilliant light sizzling and hissing at its entrance.

And keep them hooded, and their Churches, Like hawks from baiting on their perches, 1410 That, when the blessed time shall come Of quitting BABYLON and ROME, They may be ready to restore Their own Fifth Monarchy once more.

Jorton, Bayle, Halden, Raft - they were the four hooded men who had received rings.

Yet Argustal passed a bird sitting on a cairn, its hooded eye bleared with a million years of danger.

The hoop was fastened with straps to his shoulders and around the edge of the circler sat three hooded falcons fitted with tinkling bells.

A neat stone fire-ring surrounded each of the cookfires, where clusters of men stood cloaked and hooded against the cold, waiting for their breakfast.

Mario Bruneau and Mario Demers, both 18, wait for a friend in a parked car on a downtown street when a car pulls up and three hooded men get out and open up with a shotgun and submachine gun.

Without any warning, the dwarfish hooded figure rushed out of the shadows straight towards him, in a hopping, tumbling, headlong gait, and collided with his legs.

Charlie glimpsed a dwarfish, hooded figure, and eyes that stared malevolent and pale.

Prussian gerfalcons sat, hooded and jesseled, as silent and motionless as the royal fowler who stood beside them.

I felt his hand dig into my enmeshed curls, wrenching my head backward, and stared up at his hooded, gleaming eyes.