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Webster 1913 Edition
-hood
-hood
.[OE.
hod
, had
, hed
, hede
, etc., person, rank, order, condition, AS. hād
; akin to OS. hēd
, OHG. heit
, G. -heit
, D. -heid
, Goth. haidus
manner; cf. Skr. kētu
brightness, cit
to appear, be noticeable, notice. √217. Cf. -head
.] 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.