hood

a soft cover for the head and neck, usually joined to the back of a coat

A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision.

A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth.

An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.

(UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.

(US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.

A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.

A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.

(slang) A neighborhood.

(slang) Any poor suburb or neighbourhood.

(slang) Gangster, thug.

Various body parts

An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).

In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)

(informal) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.

(informal) The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.

(UK) Person wearing a hoodie.

A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.

Particular parts of conveyances

One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)

To cover (something) with a hood.

To extend out from (something), in the manner of a hood.

To grow over the eyelid but not the eye itself.

Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.