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Webster 1913 Edition
Hooded
Hood′ed
,Adj.
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.
(Zool.)
(a)
Having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the plumage; – said of birds.
(b)
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
. – Hooded warbler
, a small American warbler (
Sylvania mitrata
).Webster 1828 Edition
Hooded
HOOD'ED
,pp.