unhoodv.
a. transitive. To divest (spec. a hawk) of a hood or similar covering. Also absol.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hawking > [verb (transitive)] > remove hood
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(b)1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 221 Perceiving after that he was unhooded that he served as a stalion to his own dam.a1618 J. Sylvester Iob Triumphant in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 948 I will not hide..[Leviathan's] Strength, nor seemly Symmetries. Who shall vnhood him?1630 P. Massinger Picture sig. H Acanthe... I'll anon vnhood him.1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. i. 21 [In] one of its lonely aisles..he unhooded the lamp.1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. x. 491 Among all that sea of heads, there is not one but is bared and unhooded.1887 R. Browning Apollo & Fates in Parleyings 121 Unhook wings, unhood brows! Dost hearken?in extended use.1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. ii. xii. 334 Some people..who tooke pleasure to vnhood the end of their yard, and to cut-off the fore-skin.1575 G. Turberville Bk. Faulconrie 79 At the ende of three dayes you may vnhoode hir, and feede hir vnhooded.
1646 T. Fuller Andronicus iv. xiv. sig. H4 Like Hawkes when they are first un-hooded, and newly restored to the light.
1668 J. Dryden Sr Martin Mar-all v. 70 He's an ill Falconer that will unhood before the quarry be in sight.
1742 W. Somerville Field Sports 10 Falcner, take care,..And slily stalk; unhood thy Falcon bold.
1852 R. F. Burton Falconry in Valley of Indus vi. 65 The falconer unhoods her, places her upon the perch.
b. figurative or in figurative context.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > release or free from a covering (the soul, etc.)
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unhouse1594
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1648 R. Boyle Seraphic Love (1660) 11 As it has hitherto been my not unprosperous task to unhood your soul, I shall now..shew her game to fly at.
c1681 E. Hickeringill Trimmer in Wks. (1716) I. 356 I am forc'd to bring him to light, and unhood him, sometimes by some (otherwise unwelcome) Periphrasis.
1824 New Monthly Mag. 10 306 Thou un~hood'st the stars, Shew'st their bright eyes.
1848 G. H. Boker Calaynos iii. iii They two can put their restless heads together, Unhood their thoughts at every whim that flies.
1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xii. 140 Tom Faggus himself was a quarry for the law, if ever it should be unhooded.
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