unhood

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ hood.

Verb

unhood (third-person singular simple present unhoods, present participle unhooding, simple past and past participle unhooded)

  1. (transitive) To remove the hood from.
    Antonym: hood
    • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
      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 […].
    • 2002, Stephen Stuebner, Cool North Wind: Morley Nelson's Life with Birds of Prey, page 109:
      He unhooded the falcon, and she snapped her brown and white head around, sizing up the surroundings.
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