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Webster 1913 Edition


unhood

un-hood′

(ŭn-hoŏd′)
,
Verb.
T.
[1st pref.
un-
+
hood
.]
To remove a hood or disguise from.
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Definition 2024


unhood

unhood

English

Verb

unhood (third-person singular simple present unhoods, present participle unhooding, simple past and past participle unhooded)

  1. (transitive) To remove the hood from.
    • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12:
      there were some people found who tooke pleasure to unhood the end of their yard, and to cut off the fore-skinne after the manner of the Mahometans and Jewes [].
    • 2002, Stephen Stuebner, Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of Prey (p.109)
      He unhooded the falcon, and she snapped her brown and white head around, sizing up the surroundings.