hood-ends

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• -hood

  ·- A termination denoting state, condition, quality, character, totality, as in manhood, childhood, ...

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• Hood

  ·noun State; condition. II. Hood ·noun The top of a pump. III. Hood ·noun A covering for a mortar....

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Hood

  (Heb. tsaniph) a tiara round the head (Isa. 3:23; R.V., pl., "turbans"). Rendered "diadem," Job 29:1...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• hood

  A covering for a companion-hatch, skylight, &c. Also, the piece of tarred or painted canvas which us...

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• hinder-ends

  the sweepings of a barn after win-nowing. North. See hearken. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• tail-ends

  the refuse of wheat or other corn, not saleable in the market, but kept by farmers for their own con...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• beam-ends

  A ship is said to be on her beam-ends when she has heeled over so much on one side that her beams ap...

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• deal-ends

  Applied to deal-planks when under 6 feet in length. ...

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• windlass-ends

  Two pieces which continue the windlass outside the bitt-heads. ...

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• wood-ends

  See hood-ends. ...

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• Hood molding

  ·- ·Alt. of Hood moulding. ...

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• Hood moulding

  ·- A projecting molding over the head of an arch, forming the outermost member of the archivolt; — ...

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• Hood, Thomas

  (1799-1845) Poet and comic writer, s. of a bookseller in London, where he was b., was put into a me...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• hood-winked

  Blindfolded by a handkerchief, or other ligature, bound over the eyes. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• naval hood

  See hawse-box ...

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• Double Hood Court

  North out of Upper Thames Street by Campion Lane in Dowgate Ward (Boyle, 1799). First mention: O. a...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Robin Hood Court

  1) South out of Thames Street, west of Trig Lane, in Queenhithe Ward (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• blocked at both ends

  Finished. The game is blocked at both ends; the game is ended. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• hood of a pump

  A frame covering the upper wheel of a chain-pump. ...

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