naval hood

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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....

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• Hood

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

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• hood

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

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• Naval

  ·adj Having to do with shipping; of or pertaining to ships or a navy; consisting of ships; as, naval...

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• naval

  Of or belonging to a ship, or, as now commonly adopted, to the royal navy; hence, naval stores, nava...

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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...

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• hood-winked

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

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• hood-ends

  The ends of the planks which fit into the rabbets of the stem and stern posts. ...

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• agency, naval

  A useful class of persons, who transact the monetary affairs of officers, and frequently help them t...

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• naval architecture

  The construction, or art and science, of building ships. See ship-building ...

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• naval armament

  A fleet or squadron of ships of war, fitted out for a particular service. ...

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• naval cadet

  See cadet. ...

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• naval hospitals

  Greenwich is styled by eminence the Royal Hospital, yet the naval medical establishments in England ...

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• naval officer

  One belonging to the royal navy. Also, the person in charge of the stores in a royal dockyard abroad...

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• naval reserve

  A body of volunteers, consisting of coasters and able merchant seamen, who are drilled for serving o...

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• naval science

  A knowledge of the theory of ship-building, seamanship, navigation, nautical astronomy, and tactics....

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• naval stores

  All those particulars which are made use of, not only in the royal navy, but in every other kind of ...

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• naval tactics

  The warlike evolutions of fleets, including such manœuvres as may be judged most suitable for attack...

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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...

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• Robin Hood Court

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

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• naval store-ship

  A government vessel, appropriated to carrying stores and munitions of war to different stations. ...

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• royal naval reserve

  See naval reserve. ...

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• hood of a pump

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

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• training-ship for naval cadets

  H.M.S. Britannia, commanded by a captain and complement of officers for the primary training of nava...

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