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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



... some live remorseless frieze, The approaching days escapeless and unguessed, With mask and shroud impenetrably dressed; Time, whose inexorable destinies Bear down upon us like impending seas; And the huge presence of this world, at best A sightless giant wandering without rest, Aged ...
— Among the Millet and Other Poems • Archibald Lampman
... him to the heart. The snow had now begun to fall in large scattered flakes, whirling fitfully through the air, following every chance gust of wind, but still falling, falling, and covering the earth with its white, death-like shroud. ...
— Tales From Two Hemispheres • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
... the feel of this earth how it feels to lie looking up for ever at nothing? Is life anything but a nightmare, a dream; and is not this the reality? And why my fury, my insignificant flame, blowing here and there, when there is really no wind, only a shroud of still air, and these flowers of sunlight that have been dropped on me! Why not let my spirit sleep, instead of eating itself away with rage; why not resign myself at once to wait for the substance, of which this is but ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy
... in golden yellow licks upon his face. In her imagination she could again see the flake-like ashes, thrown out from the smoldering fire, rise grey to the ceiling, then descend silently over him like a pale shroud. ...
— Rose O'Paradise • Grace Miller White
... a shroud of unpolluted white, The frozen hills lie silent and asleep; And moveless spruce and ghostly birches keep Their silent vigils through the endless night. The frozen creeks, long voiceless, partly veiled 'Neath drifting snow, dream fondly of the trees; Within ...
— Out of the North • Howard V. Sutherland


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