Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Hooding"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hood \Hood\, 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.
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