ppl. a. [UN-1 8 or UN-2 8: cf. prec.] Not wearing, divested of, a hood. Also fig.

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1575.  [see UNHOOD v. (a)].

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1614.  Latham, Falconry, 32. Many of them will be more gentle … when they are vnhooded, then when they are hooded.

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1730.  Ramsay, Fables, Lure, 63. [He] loos’d the falcon frae his hand. Unhooded, up she sprang with birr.

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1795.  Southey, Joan of Arc, VII. 140. A rude coat of mail Unhosed, unhooded, as of lowly line He wore.

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1798.  Bloomfield, Farmer’s Boy, Autumn, V. 269. In earliest hours of dark unhooded morn.

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1848.  Lytton, Harold, IX. i. On a perch … sate his favourite Norway falcon, unhooded.

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1868.  Adah I. Menken, Infelicia, 129. In the great strength of thy unhooded soul, pray for my weakness.

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