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hood

(hud),
1. The anterior part of the integument of soft ticks (family Argasidae) that extends over the capitulum and forms the roof of the camerostome.
2. An expanded, covering structure that resembles the hood of robe or cloak in shape or function, such as the extensor digital expansions that overly the dorsal aspect of the heads of the metacarpals.
[O.E. hōd, hat]
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hor·i·zon·tal lam·i·nar flow hood

(hōr'i-zon'tăl lam'i-năr' flō hud)
A laminar flow hood in which the air is pushed through a filter horizontally toward the user to maintain a sterile environment.

lam·i·nar flow hood

(lam'i-năr flō hud)
An enclosure in which air flow is directed so as to prevent contamination of sterile materials by airborne organisms.
Synonym(s): hood.

ver·ti·cal lam·in·ar flow hood

(vĕr'ti-kăl lam'i-năr flō hud)
A laminar flow hood in which the air is pushed through a filter vertically to protect the user from exposure to harmful materials.
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(3) Peter Simonsen, '"Would that Its Tone Could Reach the Rich!': Thomas Hood's Periodical Poetry Bridging Romantic and Victorian," Romantic Textualities, 16 (2006): 57.
"Our ability to take this in-house, implement it, and see benefits fairly quickly at a pretty low cost made us realize that XBRL is real and can really help," Thomas Hood said.
As well as the Saxton maps, and the famous Armada charts, Ryther also engraved many other sea and coastal charts, and two polar projections of the constellations, drawn by Thomas Hood. He even engraved and signed a set of playing cards based on the county maps.
MY sister and I are looking for any descendants of Thomas Hood, who left Scotland to live in England about mid-1840s.
He took it on barnstorming tours, demonstrating it at fairs and in hired halls while giving heart-rending recitations of Thomas Hood's `Song of the Shirt'.
The first editors were Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, and Joseph Stirling Coyne, and early members of the staff included the authors William Makepeace Thackeray and Thomas Hood and the illustrator-cartoonists John Leech and Sir John Tenniel.
Hamilton Reynolds and Thomas Hood, Dyer charts its approach to
In "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the role of the imagination comes into sharper focus when compared to interpretations of the play by Mary's brother Charles and his poet-friend, Thomas Hood. In both versions, the imagination figures forth as the primary focus, and both writers find in Shakespeare's fairy landscape an allegory of the creative process.
Any sense of Hogg using his sermons to get even with an unappreciative literary elite is more than balanced out by the earlier piece on 'Good Breeding', which deals not with nameless 'reviewers', but with old friends - Walter Scott, Allan Cunningham, Thomas Hood, John Hamilton Reynolds, Theodore Hook, and George Cruikshank.
Thomas Hood's quirky, resonant, and disturbing piece 'A Lay of Real Life', first published in the Comic Annual for 1835, has not previously been recognized as a literary response to a poem by John Clare, entitled 'My Mary', first published in Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (1820).
According to Money's attorney, David Walker of Thomas Hood, P.A., Plainfield, New Jersey, the case represents a shift in the legal attitude towards workers' compensation in the state.
Among contributors in the 19th century were Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle, Thomas Hood, Charles Lamb, and Walter Pater.
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