Robin, a famous outlaw and deer-stealer, who chiefly harboured in Sherwood forest in Nottinghamshire. He was a man of family, which by his pedigree appears to have had some title to the earldom of Huntingdon; and played his pranks about the latter end of the 12th century. He was famous for archery and for his treatment of all travellers who came in his way: levying contributions on the rich, and relieving the poor. Falling sick at last, and requiring to be bled, he is said to have been betrayed and bled to death. He died in 1247, and was buried at Kirklees in Yorkshire, then a Benedictine monastery, where his grave-stone is still shown.

Hood. See Chaperon and Cowl.

falconry, is a piece of leather, where-with the head of a hawk, falcon, or the like, is covered.

Hood Island, one of the Marquesas Islands, in the South South sea. It was discovered in April 1774 by Captain Cook, who gave it that name from the person who first saw the land. It is the most northerly of the cluster, and lies in S. Lat. 9° 26' W. Long. 139° 13'.