honorific 
hoitorijirus, that does honor, honorable, < lunim , 
honorj + -ficus, (fueere, do, make.] I. a. Con- 
ferring honor ; importing respect or deference. 
Mr. Freeman (in his ( 'umpurative Politics, pp. 72, 7-'i) has 
Riven a long list of honorific names belonging to classes 
or institutions, which indicate the value once set by ad 
vancing societies on the judgment of the old. 
Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 23. 
A very eminent professor wrote a highly courteous and 
honorific letter to the papers. 
Fortnightly Rec., N. 8., XLIII. 51. 
II. u. A word or syllable used as a mere 
honorific term: as, for example, in the lan- 
guages of China and Japan, kwei, honorable, 
l.'ao, eminent, lao, venerable, go, imperial, o, 
great or august, used for the second and third 
personal pronouns when speaking to or of an- 
other: as, kwei kwoh, your (honorable) coun- 
try ; go set met, your (imperial) name, etc. 
Bailey remarks of the Veddahs that in addressing others 
"they use none of the honorific* so profusely common in 
Singhalese." //. Spencer, Frin. of SocioL, 6 398. 
The absolutely necessary personal references are Intro- 
duced by honorific* : that is, by honorary or humble ex- 
pressions. The Atlantic, LX. 517. 
honorify (6-nor'i-fi), r. t. ; pret. and pp. honori- 
fled, ppr. honorifying. [< OF. honorijier, < ML. 
honorificare, < L. honorifietts, that does honor : 
see honorific."] To do ton or to; confer honor 
upon. [Rare.] 
Making large statues to honvrify 
Thy name, memorial's rites to glorify. 
Ford, Fame's Memorial. 
honorless, honourless (ou'or-les), a. [< honor, 
honour, + -few.] Without honor; not honored. 
The resdue, and the hugie heape of such as there lay 
slayne, 
Both numbrelesse and honourlesse they burne. 
Phaer, JEneid, ii. 
And so, reciprocally, will an honourlens king promote the 
worship of a fearless God. Wuruarlun, Works, IX. xiv. 
honor-man (on'or-mau ), . One who takes hon- 
ors on graduation from a college or university. 
The anxious classical honour-man could not scribble 
down a whole ode of Pindar without becoming aware of 
what he was doing. Proc. Soe. Psych. Research, II. 223. 
honoroust, honouroust, a- [< OF. lumoros, 
oiioros, < L. as if *honorosus, honorable, < ho- 
nor, honor : see honor."] Honorable. 
The Kyng armed was with fair Ennynee, 
Hys swet doughter ful maydenly to vew, 
Hys honorous fader with harnois new. 
Rum. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.\ 1. 1321. 
honor-point (on'or-poiut), . In her., the point 
just above the center of the escutcheon or fesse- 
point. 
hontet, '' and ii. A Middle English form of 
limit. Chaucer. 
honved (hon'ved), n. [Hung., lit. 'defenders 
of the fatherland.'] The landwehr of Hun- 
gary, exclusive of artillery. The name was 
used in 1848-9 to denote, first the volunteers, 
and then the entire revolutionary army. 
honyt, . An obsolete spelling of honey. 
hoo* (ho), inter}. [A sonorous syllable, a var. 
of ho, 7w,etc.: see/to 1 . Alsoredupl.7iooAoo,q.v.] 
An exclamation variously used to express ex- 
citement, delight, contempt, etc., according to 
the mode of utterance. 
Take my cap, Jupiter, and I thank thee : Hoc .' Mar- 
ri;is coming home! Shak., Cor., ii. 1. 
hoo 2 t, " An obsolete form of how%. 
hoo 3 (ho), pron. A dialectal form of he 1 , A and B. 
hoohuht, . An obsolete spelling of hubbub. 
hood (hud), >i. [< ME. hood, hod, < AS. hod, a 
hood, = OFries. hod = D. hoed = MLG. hot, LG. 
hood, a hat, = 
OHG. huot, hot, 
MHG. huot, a 
hat, hood, hel- 
met, G. hut, a 
hat ; akin to heed, > ~ r * v >;n 
and more re- /V. 
motely to hat: 
see heed 1 , hat 1 .'] 
1. A covering 
for the head, of 
soft or flexi- 
ble material, as 
cloth, leather, or 
chain-mail (in a 
suit of armor), 
UMiiallv ovtoiifl .-/, hood of the middle ages; 5, hood like 
usually extend- A ^ but worn by fitting j, e face . op< ., lin( , 
lllg Over the back around the head and twisting the cape 0? 
,f 4.1.- i i the hood into a wreath; C, hawk's hood 
of the neck and W | th ],, , a u, O r tiroire ; n, hawk's hood 
sometimes the without the tail. (From Viollet-le-Duc's 
.. , " Diet, du Mobilier francais.") 
shoulders, and 
often attached to a garment worn about the 
body: as, the luiod of a monk; the hood of an 
academic gown. (See also cut under ctniuiil. 
His cote wad of a cloute that cary was y-called, 
His hod was full of holes & his heer oute. 
Piers Plowman's Crede (E. E. T. S.), 1. 422. 
( )n bad me by a hood to cover my head ; 
But for want of mony, I myght not be sped. 
Lydyate, London Lackpenny. 
They should be good men ; their affairs as righteous : 
But all hoods make not monks. Shale., Hen. VIII., iii. 1. 
2. In falconry, a covering for the entire head 
of a hawk. It is usually adorned with a plume of 
feathers, and sometimes with small bells. Its especial 
purpose is to blind the hawk, and it is removed when 
the quarry is to be pursued. 
3. A cover of a carriage for the protection of 
its occupants, made so that it can be folded or 
turned back, or removed. 4. Something that 
resembles a hood in form, position, or use, as 
the upper petal or sepal of certain flowers, a 
chimney-cowl, etc.; specifically, in zool., a con- 
formation of parts or an arrangement of color 
on or about the head, like or likened to a hood. 
See phrases under hooded. 
A pair of very conspicuous white, black-edged spectacle- 
like marks on the expansible portion of the neck, called 
the hood. Gunther, Encyc. Brit., XXII. 196. 
As the quadrants or hootl dip under the water, they 
close one end of a division [of a gas-meterj. 
Set. Anter., N. 8., LV. 851. 
5. The hooded seal, Cystophora cristata. [New- 
foundland.] 6. In snip-building, the foremost 
and aftermost planks of a ship's bottom, both 
inside and outside French hood, a head-dress 
worn by women in the sixteenth century, of which the 
front band was depressed over the forehead and raised in 
folds or loops over the temples. 
For these loose times, when a strict sparing food 
More's out of fashion then an old French hood. 
Herbert, Hygiasticon. 
To fly out of the hood. See *i, r. t. To glaze one's 
hoodt. Seeglaze. To put a bone in any one's hoodt. 
See bonei. To put an ape in one's hoodt. See ape. 
hood (hud), f. t. [< ME. hooden, hoden, cover 
with a hood, cover; from the noun.] 1. To 
cover the head of with a hood ; furnish with a 
hood: as, to hood a falcon ; to hood a chimney. 
When he [Scipio] was at Alexandria and disbarked, as 
he came first to land, he went hooded, as it were, with his 
robe cast over his head. Holland, tr. of Plutarch, p. 358. 
I will assure you, he can sleep no more 
Than a hooded hawk. 
Beau, and Fl., Thierry and Theodoret, v. 2. 
The friar howled, and the monarch crown'd. 
/'"/" Essay on Man, iv. 198. 
Some young shepherdess, in thelinen cap and long white 
hooded cloak of Barbiion. Nineteenth Century, XXIV. 430. 
Hence 2. To cover; hide; blind. 
I would to God that I were hooded, that I saw less ; or 
that I could perform more. Bacon, Letters, it 
While grace is saying, hood mine eyes 
Thus with my hat, and sigh, and say amen. 
Shalt., M. of V., ii. 2. 
The Spirit of intolerance, no longer ttooded in the dark- 
ness of the cloister, now stalked abroad in all his terrors. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 7. 
-hood. [_(. ME. -hode, -hod (also, with mutation 
of vowel, -hed, -hefo, > E. -head), < AS. had, 
prop, state, condition, quality, also a per- 
son, sex; in comp., condition, quality (as in 
cild-had, childhood, werhdd, manhood, preost- 
hdd, priesthood, mcedenhad, ME. maidenhod, 
maidenhfd, E. maidenhood, maidenhead, etc.); 
= OS. hed, condition, honor, = OHG. heit, con- 
dition, quality, sex, rank, MHG. heit, way, man- 
ner, = Icel. heidhr = Dan. holder = Sw. heder, 
honor, = Goth, haidus, way, manner ; as a suf- 
fix, = OS. -hed = OFries. -hed = D. -Jteid = 
MLG. -heit, LG. -hed = OHG. -heit, MHG. G. 
-heit and (after adjectives in -Hch and -</) 
-keit (Sw. -het, Dan. -hed, prob. after LG.); 
= Skt. ketu, brightness, appearance, < T/ kit, 
perceive, know.] A suffix denoting 'state, 
quality, character,' as in childhood, boyhood, 
manhood, maidenhood, fatherhood, brotherhood, 
sisterhood, knighthood, priesthood, Godhood, etc. 
Such compounds, which are properly abstract, are some- 
times used concretely with a collective sense, as brother- 
hood, sisterhood, priesthood, etc., meaning a body or an 
association of brothers, sisters, priests, etc. It is equiv- 
alent to -head, as in maidenhead, Godhead, the form 
Godhead being now usual in the concrete sense. The suf- 
fix, originally attachable to nouns only, is in Kiddie Eng- 
lish and modern use sometimes found with adjectives, as 
in falsehood, and in pseudo-archaic forms like drearihead, 
ifrowsihead. luntihead (-hed\ etc., used by Spenser and his 
imitators (Thomson, etc.). 
hood-cap (hud'kap), . 1. The hooded or blad- 
der-nosed seal, Cystophora cristata. See cut un- 
der Cystophorinai. 2. A close head-dress worn 
by women in the reign of Henry VIII. It was a 
close capor bonnet covering the sides of the face. 
The Versailles portrait of Katherine of Arragon is re- 
markable for the hood-cap of five corners. 
tT. Thontbury, Art Jour., N. S., XV. 137. 
hood-cover (hud'kuv' i 'er), ii. Same as hood, 3. 
Hood-ends of Planks. 
hoodoo 
hooded (hud'ed),^j. . 1. Wearing, or covered 
or furnished with, a hood. 2. Specifically, in 
zool., having on the head any formation of 
parts or arrangement of colors like or likened 
to a hood, as in mammals, birds, etc.; cucul- 
late; capistrate. 3. In lot., cucullate; hav- 
ing the apex or sides curved upward or arched 
over so as to resemble the point of a slipper or 
a hood, as the spathe of the Indian turnip or 
the lip of Cypripciliiiiu and Calypso. See cut 
under ('y/iri/icditt/ii Hooded crow, Cormis comix. 
See crow-. Also called hoodie-crow, Danixh crow, Kent- 
ixh crow, market-Jew crow, Northern or A'oricay crw. 
maid crow, Scrememton croir. Hpoded merganser, ii 
anserine bird of the family Anatidtf, the Lnt>lnnt/ttencucvi- 
latus. Hooded oriole, a bird of the family Icteridtr, tlh 
Icterus cucullatuv. Hooded seal, the bladder-nosed seal. 
Cystophora cristata. See cut under teal. Hooded snake, 
a snake in which the elastic skin of the neck is distended 
over elongated and very movable ribs, suggesting a houd 
or cowl, as in the cobra. These serpents belong to the 
family Elapidcv or Najidce, and especially to the genus 
Xaja, as the Indian cobra, Jv". tripudians, or the Egyptian 
asp, Saja haje. The hamadryad, Ophiophagus elapt, is also 
a hoodeasnake. See cut under cobra-de-capello. Hooded 
warbler, an American bird of the family Sylricolida!, the 
Myiodiocte* mitratus. 
hood-end, hooding-end (hud 'end, hud 'ing- 
end), . In ship-building, the end of a plank 
which fits into 
the rebate of 
thestem-postor 
the stern-post. 
hood-gastrula 
(hud T gas * tr$- 
la), 11. An am- 
phigastrula. 
hoodie (hud'i), 
n. Same as 
hoodie-crow. 
[Scotch.] 
hoodie-crow, hoodie-craw (hud'i-kro, -kra), H. 
[Sc., also hoddy-cntic, huddit-craic, hoodit-craw, 
i. e. hooded crow : also simply hoodie, hoody, 
hoddy : see hoddy.] The hooded crow, Corvus 
comix. [Scotch.] 
They are sitting down yonder like hoodie-crates in a mist. 
Scott, Antiquary, viii. 
On the rabbit burrows on the shore there gathered 
hundreds and hundreds of hoodiecrown, such as you see in 
Cambridgeshire. Kingsley, Water-Babies, p. 237. 
hooding (hud'ing), . [Verbal n. of hood, f.] 
1. A covering. 2. The strip of leather that 
connects the two parts of a flail. 
hooding-end, n. See hood-end. 
hood-jelly (hud'jel'i), . A name of the Hy- 
dromedusat or acalephs proper, such as jelly- 
fish and sea-nettles. Haeekel. 
hoodless (hud'les), a. [< ME. hodles; < hooil 
+ -tew.] Having no hood. 
hoodlum (hod'lum), n. [A word of no definite 
derivation, appar. originating in California in 
the slang of the ruffians of whom it has become 
the designation.] A young hectoring street 
rowdy; one of a gang of ruffians; a lounging, 
good-for-nothing, quarrelsome fellow ; a rough. 
[Slang, western U. 8.] 
Yon at the East hare but little idea of the hoodlmnt of 
this city [San Francisco). They compose a class of crim- 
inals of both sexes, far more dangerous than are to be 
found In the Eastern cities. They travel In gangs, and 
are ready at any moment for the perpetration of any crime. 
Boston Journal, August, 1877. 
hoodmant(hud'man), n. [<hood + man.'] The 
person blindfolded in the game of hoodman- 
blind, now called blindman's-buff. 
Re-enter Soldiers with Parolles. 
Her. A plague upon him ! muffled. . . . 
1 Lord. Hoodman comes. Shak., All's Well, iv. 8. 
hoodman-blind (hud'man-blind'), n. A play in 
which a person blinded is to catch one of the 
others and tell his name ; blindman's-buff . 
What devil was 't 
That thus hath cozeu'd you at hoodinan-olind? 
Shak., Hamlet, iii. 4. 
Here [at Bracebridge Hull] were kept up the old games 
of hoodman blind, shoe the wild mare, hot cockles, steal 
the white loaf, bob apple, and snap dragon. 
Irrinij, Christmas Eve. 
hood-mold, hood-molding (hud'mold, -mol"- 
ding), n. In arch., the projecting molding of 
the arch over a medieval door or window, etc., 
whether inside or outside. Also called label, 
drip, dripstone, or weather-molding. See cuts 
under dripstone. 
hoodock (hud'ok), it. [Origin obscure.] Mi- 
serly. [Scotch.] 
My hand-waled curse keep hard in chase 
The harpy, lioottock, purse-proud race. 
Burns, To Major Logan. 
hoodoo (ho'dii), a. [An irreg. var. of roodoo, or 
so regarded.] 1. Same as roodou. 
