(n.) A soft, elastic, very durable cap, made of thick, seamless woolen stuff, and worn by men in Scotland.
(n.) A covering for the head, worn by women, usually protecting more or less the back and sides of the head, but no part of the forehead. The shape of the bonnet varies greatly at different times; formerly the front part projected, and spread outward, like the mouth of a funnel.
(n.) Anything resembling a bonnet in shape or use
(n.) A small defense work at a salient angle; or a part of a parapet elevated to screen the other part from enfilade fire.
(n.) A metallic canopy, or projection, over an opening, as a fireplace, or a cowl or hood to increase the draught of a chimney, etc.
(n.) A frame of wire netting over a locomotive chimney, to prevent escape of sparks.
(n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft.
(n.) In pumps, a metal covering for the openings in the valve chambers.
(n.) An additional piece of canvas laced to the foot of a jib or foresail in moderate winds.
(n.) The second stomach of a ruminating animal.
(n.) An accomplice of a gambler, auctioneer, etc., who entices others to bet or to bid; a decoy.
(v. i.) To take off the bonnet or cap as a mark of respect; to uncover.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
(2) No blood group polymorphism was revealed by testing bonnet macaque red cells with isoantisera produced in rhesus monkeys (M. mulatta) and in crab-eating macaques (M. fascicularis).
(3) Nasal cavities from eight subadult bonnet monkeys were processed for light microscopy, and scanning and transmission electron microscopy.
(4) Despite the BBC cutting back on the number of "bonnet and bodice" adaptations in favour of more modern period drama , Davies said there was still room for big classic pieces.
(5) Now I’ve got this bee in my bonnet and want to tell people “Roast it whole until the skin’s soft, take it out of the Aga, cool it a bit and it will be just lovely”.
(6) Partially purified human ovarian follicular fluid peptide (hGF2) was administered during follicular phase in 5 bonnet monkeys.
(7) We present a series of four patients with the Charles Bonnet syndrome, which is characterized by recurrent vivid visual hallucinations in the presence of normal cognition and insight.
(8) The purpose of this study is to develop a technique to test the utility of an investigational device, the obstetric bonnet, and measure the forces it places on the fetal head.
(9) To ascertain the role of diet in the aetiology of mucoid vasculopathy, groups of bonnet monkeys were fed protein-deficient normal carbohydrate, or protein-deficient high-carbohydrate tapioca (cassava) starch based diets or control diets of normal protein and carbohydrate for 3 or 5 months periods.
(10) Osborne has a better grasp than Cameron of what is technically required to secure British interests in a rewired relationship with the EU – the under-the-bonnet business of voting weights and single-market rules.
(11) We have confirmed the presence of M cells in bonnet monkey FAE having ultrastructural features very similar to those of human M cells.
(12) We studied behavioral development in 12 mother-reared social-group-living bonnet macaque (M. radiata monkey infants during the first four months of life.
(13) A 17-year-old girl with unilateral blindness and exophthalmos was found to have Bonnet-Dechaume-Blanc syndrome without retinal arteriovenous communications.
(14) In Old World monkeys, the U2 genes were organized as a tandem repeat of an 11-kb element; the restriction maps of the 11-kb elements in baboon and two closely related macaques, bonnet and rhesus monkeys, also differed slightly, confirming that efficient sequence homogenization is an intrinsic property of the U2 tandem array.
(15) But then a car bonnet-sized choc ice gets wheeled out and everything's OK again.
(16) The symptoms in the second case resembled those described in cases of visual hallucinosis (Charles Bonnet syndrome) in the elderly.
(17) Variations with regard to salt tolerance were observed in rice varieties, Blue bonnet, IR-8, Jhona-349, and Magnolia.
(18) Also, the bonnet macaques' maltose and Polycose preferences exceeded those of the squirrel monkeys.
(19) Imipramine hydrochloride was administered orally twice daily to 18 bonnet and 3 rhesus monkeys between days 23 and 45 of pregnancy for 1-3 or 18-22 days at 1, 2, and 10 times the recommended human dose.
(20) Using the Cochet-Bonnet esthesiometer, we evaluated the corneal sensation of 11 patients with unilateral Adie's tonic pupil.
Hood
Definition:
(n.) State; condition.
(n.) A covering or garment for the head or the head and shoulders, often attached to the body garment
(n.) A soft covering for the head, worn by women, which leaves only the face exposed.
(n.) A part of a monk's outer garment, with which he covers his head; a cowl.
(n.) A like appendage to a cloak or loose overcoat, that may be drawn up over the head at pleasure.
(n.) An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.
(n.) A covering for a horse's head.
(n.) A covering for a hawk's head and eyes. See Illust. of Falcon.
(n.) Anything resembling a hood in form or use
(n.) The top or head of a carriage.
(n.) A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.
(n.) A projecting cover above a hearth, forming the upper part of the fireplace, and confining the smoke to the flue.
(n.) The top of a pump.
(n.) A covering for a mortar.
(n.) The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet.
(n.) A covering or porch for a companion hatch.
(n.) The endmost plank of a strake which reaches the stem or stern.
(v. t.) To cover with a hood; to furnish with a hood or hood-shaped appendage.
(v. t.) To cover; to hide; to blind.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(2) The menace we’re facing – and I say we, because no one is spared – is embodied by the hooded men who are ravaging the cradle of civilization.
(3) All recipient mice and their littermates were maintained in isolation hoods to eliminate the possibility of exposure to other sources of P. carinii.
(4) Regarding the shots fired from Brelo’s gun, O’Donnell said they could have been the ones causing death, but so could others fired by other officers before his shots from the hood of the vehicle.
(5) Top Gear, Robin Hood, Doctor Who, Primeval and Spooks were the company's top five highest-grossing shows sold internationally.
(6) To predict hood effectiveness, it is important to have knowledge of the airflow field that it generates.
(7) Asked if more needed to be done by Brinker and the board, Hood would only say: "They need to figure out what's going on.
(8) Andrew Hood, of the IFS, wrote: “Mr Osborne wants further cuts to social security spending to help reduce the deficit.
(9) Experiments were performed to measure velocities in front of six slot hoods.
(10) There is effective use of a scuba-like neoprene fabric which is slickly practical and gives a bold, shell-like silhouette to hooded coats and to sweatshirts which seems to reference the balloon and cocoon shapes that Cristobal Balenciaga invented to great acclaim in the 1950s.
(11) We cannot bring about justice through violence,” said the Rev Dr Jeff Hood, one of the organizers of the protest in Dallas.
(12) Repeated exposure of the nasal hoods to microwaves resulted in no damage to their texture and flexibility.
(13) History will judge you and you must at last answer your own conscience.” About 40 of the demonstrators wore orange jumpsuits, more than half of whom also donned black hoods over their faces, and one held up his wrists in handcuffs.
(14) David Lengel (@LengelDavid) FYI - I strongly object to Cards first base coach Chris Maloney wearing a hooded sweatshirt under his uniform.
(15) Raymond Hood – Terminal City (1929) 'Poem of towers' … Raymond Hood's 1929 drawings for the proposed Terminal City, in Chicago This never-built design for a massive new skyscraper quarter in Chicago is a vision of the modern city as a shadowed poem of towers; of glass and concrete dwarfing the people.
(16) Wearing royal blue cloaks with pointed hoods, the boys line up beside the road in a small village just outside the city of Ségou, chanting in unison.
(17) Fort Hood spokesman Chris Haug said the search continued after teams late Thursday night found the bodies of two soldiers who had been in the vehicle.
(18) Use of the laminar flow cabinet produced a significantly greater level of contamination than the other methods, and it is concluded that the exhaust-ventilated safety hood should be used for this procedure.
(19) The Fawn-Hooded strain of rats exhibits a hemorrhagic disorder, known as platelet storage pool deficiency.
(20) Using field observations, modelling techniques and theoretical analysis, parameters describing the performance and collection efficiency of large industrial canopy fume hoods are established for, a) steady state collection of fume and b) collection of plumes with fluctuating flowrates.