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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)
- (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.
- 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essayes, London: Edward Blount, OCLC 946730821, II.12: