unhood
English
Etymology
un- + hood.
Verb
unhood (third-person singular simple present unhoods, present participle unhooding, simple past and past participle unhooded)
- (transitive) To remove the hood from.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- 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 (p.109)
- He unhooded the falcon, and she snapped her brown and white head around, sizing up the surroundings.
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