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.