Hoðma

According to the Old English Dictionary:

an;

hoðma

m. A covering [?], cloud [?], darkness :-- Ðǽr wísna fela wearþ inlíhted ðe ǽr under hoðman biholen lǽgon there many things were illumined that before lay concealed in darkness, Exon. 8 b; Th. 3, 32; Cri. 45. Rídend swefaþ hæleþ in hoðman knights and warriors sleep in the darkness [of death], Beo. Th. 4907; B. 2458. [Cf. heóðu.] hoðma