unhood en · VERB
Etymology
From un- + hood.
Meanings
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(transitive) To remove the hood from.
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[…].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:He unhooded the falcon, and she snapped her brown and white head around, sizing up the surroundings.
2002, Stephen Stuebner, Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of Prey, page 109:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| unhooding | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unhoods | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| unhooded | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| unhooded | Tense=Past | lexicographic |