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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



... 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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