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Shroud   /ʃraʊd/   Listen
noun
Shroud  n.  
1.
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. "Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds."
2.
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. "A dead man in his shroud."
3.
That which covers or shelters like a shroud. "Jura answers through her misty shroud."
4.
A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. (Obs.) "The shroud to which he won His fair-eyed oxen." "A vault, or shroud, as under a church."
5.
The branching top of a tree; foliage. (R.) "The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroad."
6.
pl. (Naut.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
7.
(Mach.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
Bowsprit shrouds (Naut.), ropes extending from the head of the bowsprit to the sides of the vessel.
Futtock shrouds (Naut.), iron rods connecting the topmast rigging with the lower rigging, passing over the edge of the top.
Shroud plate.
(a)
(Naut.) An iron plate extending from the dead-eyes to the ship's side.
(b)
(Mach.) A shroud. See def. 7, above.


verb
Shrood  v. t.  (Written also shroud, and shrowd)  To trim; to lop. (Prov. Eng.)


Shroud  v. t.  (past & past part. shrouded; pres. part. shrouding)  
1.
To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave. "The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums."
2.
To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil. "One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen." "Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that light the skies, To shroud my shame."


Shroud  v. t.  To lop. See Shrood. (Prov. Eng.)


Shroud  v. i.  To take shelter or harbor. (Obs.) "If your stray attendance be yet lodged, Or shroud within these limits."





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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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