hooding

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of hood.

   During the blackout, the hooding of street lamps cut the glow that enemy pilots might spot.

   A broad porch roof, hooding the front windows, keeps the living room cool in summer.

   Note

   As a gerund it behaves like a noun and takes of: Charles E. Lee, writing in Railway Magazine in November 1939, has the hooding of electric signals as a wartime lighting measure. The participle takes its object directly, a roof hooding the windows or a falconer hooding a bird; only the eyelid meaning does without one. A snake's spread neck is a separate noun.

2. 2
   noununcountable

   The widening of an elapid snake's neck into the shape called a hood.

   Hooding is the cobra's best-known defensive display, and keepers learn to read it from across the enclosure.

   The researchers filmed each snake to measure how long hooding lasted after a disturbance.

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