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shroud


  6  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shroud  \Shroud\,  v.  i. 
  To  take  shelter  or  harbor.  [Obs.] 
 
  If  your  stray  attendance  be  yet  lodged,  Or  shroud 
  within  these  limits.  --Milton. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shroud  \Shroud\,  v.  t. 
  To  lop.  See  {Shrood}.  [Prov.  Eng.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shrood  \Shrood\,  v.  t.  [Cf.  {Shroud}.]  [Written  also  {shroud}, 
  and  {shrowd}.] 
  To  trim;  to  lop.  [Prov.  Eng.] 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shroud  \Shroud\  (shroud),  n.  [OE.  shroud,  shrud,  schrud,  AS 
  scr[=u]d  a  garment,  clothing;  akin  to  Icel.  skru[eth]  the 
  shrouds  of  a  ship,  furniture  of  a  church,  a  kind  of  stuff, 
  Sw  skrud  dress,  attire,  and  E.  shred.  See  {Shred},  and  cf 
  {Shrood}.] 
  1.  That  which  clothes,  covers,  conceals,  or  protects;  a 
  garment.  --Piers  Plowman. 
 
  Swaddled,  as  new  born,  in  sable  shrouds.  --Sandys. 
 
  2.  Especially,  the  dress  for  the  dead;  a  winding  sheet.  ``A 
  dead  man  in  his  shroud.''  --Shak. 
 
  3.  That  which  covers  or  shelters  like  a  shroud. 
 
  Jura  answers  through  her  misty  shroud.  --Byron. 
 
  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. 
  --Chapman. 
 
  A  vault,  or  shroud,  as  under  a  church.  --Withals. 
 
  5.  The  branching  top  of  a  tree;  foliage.  [R.] 
 
  The  Assyrian  wad  a  cedar  in  Lebanon,  with  fair 
  branches  and  with  a  shadowing  shroad.  --Ezek.  xxxi. 
  3. 
 
  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  --Ham.  Nav.  Encyc. 
  b  (Mach.)  A  shroud.  See  def.  7,  above. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shroud  \Shroud\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Shrouded};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Shrouding}.]  [Cf.  AS  scr?dan.  See  {Shroud},  n.] 
  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. 
  --Bacon. 
 
  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.  --Sir  W. 
  Raleigh. 
 
  Some  tempest  rise,  And  blow  out  all  the  stars  that 
  light  the  skies,  To  shroud  my  shame.  --Dryden. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  shroud 
  n  1:  a  line  that  suspends  the  harness  from  the  canopy  of  a 
  parachute 
  2:  a  line  (rope  or  chain)  that  regulates  the  angle  at  which  a 
  sail  is  set  in  relation  to  the  wind  [syn:  {sheet},  {tack}, 
  {mainsheet},  {weather  sheet}] 
  3:  something  in  which  a  corpse  is  wrapped  [syn:  {pall},  {cerement}, 
  {winding-sheet},  {winding-clothes}] 
  v  1:  cover  as  if  with  a  shroud;  "The  origins  of  this  civilization 
  are  shrouded  in  mystery"  [syn:  {enshroud},  {hide},  {cover}] 
  2:  form  a  cover  like  a  shroud;  "Mist  shrouded  the  castle" 
  3:  wrap  in  a  shroud;  of  corpses 




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