A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak. • A head covering placed on falcons to inhibit their vision. • A head and neck covering placed on horses to protect against insects and sunlight, to slow coat growth and for warmth. • A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree. • An enclosure that protects something, especially from above. • Particular parts of conveyances • A soft top of a convertible car or carriage. • The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries. • A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something. • A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes. • One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).) • Various body parts • An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja). • The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii. • In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood) • The prepuce; the foreskin or clitoral hood.