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Home Dictionary Name: hood Page: 2 Page 2 of about 54 results (0.002 seconds)Hoodlum
A young rowdy a rough lawless fellow colloquially called also hood...
Houve
A head covering of various kinds a hood a coif a cap...
Howve
A hood See Houve...
jellaba
a loose cloak with a hood worn in the Middle East and northern Africa...
Anticipation
Anticipation, doing or taking a thing before the appointed time. For anticipation of an invention see PATENTS. A married woman may be restrained by the terms of a will or settlement from aliening, by way of anticipation, property settled to her separate use during coverture. Such a clause absolutely disables her from selling, mortgaging or dealing with the property in anticipation, but it does not apply to income actually accrued due, Hood Barrs v. Heriot, 1896 AC 174, and on the determination of the coverture the restraint is at an end, Tullett v. Armstrong, (1839) 4 My&Cr 377; 1 Beav 1. Such a provision is only effective during coverture; it cannot affect dispositions in favour of a man, Brandon v. Robinson, (1871) 18 Ves 429, or a feme sole. The restraint may be applied either to corpus or income, usually only to the latter; in a marriage settlement the wife's income is almost invariably directed to be paid to her, without power of anticipation.' The L.P. Act, 1925, s. 169, repeatin...
Mozetta
A cape with a small hood worn by the pope and other dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church...
Roberdsman
A bold stout robber or night thief said to be so called from Robin Hood...
Rufterhood
A kind of hood for a hawk...
hood
A termination denoting state condition quality character totality as in manhood childhood knighthood brotherhood Sometimes it is written chiefly in obsolete words in the form head...
Chaperon
Chaperon, a hood or bonnet anciently worn by the Knights of the Garter, as part of the habit of that noble order; also a little escutcheon fixed in the forehead of horses drawing a hearse at a funeral....
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