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Shroud   /ʃraʊd/   Listen
Shroud

noun
1.
A line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute.
2.
(nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind.  Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, tack, weather sheet.
3.
Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.  Synonyms: cerement, pall, winding-clothes, winding-sheet.
verb
(past & past part. shrouded; pres. part. shrouding)
1.
Cover as if with a shroud.  Synonyms: cover, enshroud, hide.
2.
Form a cover like a shroud.
3.
Wrap in a shroud.



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"Shroud" Quotes from Famous Books



... the mysterious fire, the encompassing shroud of fog—made us wonder whether we were awake or asleep, when we were still more startled by a voice behind ...
— The Boys of Crawford's Basin - The Story of a Mountain Ranch in the Early Days of Colorado • Sidford F. Hamp
... that permit us to infer? That we have men who dangle swords, but not That they will wield the weapons that they wear. Tho' all the plain with gleaming tents you crowd, Does that make heroes of the men they shroud? ...
— Love's Comedy • Henrik Ibsen
... while yet sufficiently distant from the cataract to be heard by each other. "My path," said Aram, as the lightning now paused upon the scene, and seemed literally to wrap in a lurid shroud the dark figure of the Student, as he stood, with his hand calmly raised, and his cheek pale, but dauntless and composed; "My path now lies yonder: in a week we shall ...
— Eugene Aram, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... little over my old master is no one's business but my own. I went about the house, and I did my duty—ever since Master Jasper had been grown up I had been housekeeper. I did my duty, I say, and before the coffin lid was screwed down I laid that green leather case under the shroud by my master's side; and just as I had done it I turned round feeling that some one was in the room, and there stood young Master Jasper at the door looking ...
— In Homespun • Edith Nesbit
... the free Amidst the battle's cloud; Its folds shall wave to Liberty, Or be to us a shroud. ...
— The Yankee Tea-party - Or, Boston in 1773 • Henry C. Watson


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