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Shroud

noun

A line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute.

(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.

Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped. Synonyms: cerement, pall, winding-clothes, winding-sheet.

verb

(past & past part. shrouded; pres. part. shrouding)

Cover as if with a shroud. Synonyms: cover, enshroud, hide.

Form a cover like a shroud.

Wrap in a shroud.

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"Shroud" Quotes from Famous Books

... evil has come to thee at last though late, thou hast not ended with splendour of life. Aeson too, ill-fated man! Surely better had it been for him, if he were lying beneath the earth, enveloped in his shroud, still unconscious of bitter toils. Would that the dark wave, when the maiden Helle perished, had overwhelmed Phrixus too with the ram; but the dire portent even sent forth a human voice, that it might cause to Alcimede sorrows and countless ...

— The Argonautica • Apollonius Rhodius

... nameless rivers travel, And in strange valleys greet strange deaths alone; The grim, intrepid ones who would unravel The mysteries that shroud the ...

— Ballads of a Cheechako • Robert W. Service

... dreams. The Gods pass away like men; and it would not be well for them to be eternal. The faith which we have felt should never be a chain, and our obligations to it are fully discharged when we have carefully enveloped it in the purple shroud within the folds of which slumber ...

— Recollections of My Youth • Ernest Renan

... a gleam of light since early morning, only a gentle diffused twilight, and the foliage in the garden was almost human in its listlessness; a flat grey sky hung about the trees like a shroud. Mother Philippa and Mother Mary Hilda were walking with her about the grass-grown drive. They were waiting for the Reverend Mother, who had gone to fetch a medal for Evelyn. She heard her chestnuts champing their bits ready to take her back to London, and she could not listen to Mother ...

— Evelyn Innes • George Moore

... heard the cry, and ceasing their awestruck talk, looked eagerly at the fast-widening rifts in the white shroud. Ghost-like wreaths detached themselves, flitted by the ship, and then dissipated in thin air. The summer night sky with its pale stars appeared in lakes above, and below, the fog rose from the water like steam. Presently the great cliffs came out clear ...

— Vandrad the Viking - The Feud and the Spell • J. Storer Clouston

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