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Definition of 'shroud'Noun
( en-noun)
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
* Sandys
- swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
* Shakespeare
- a dead man in his shroud
That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
* Byron
- Jura answers through her misty shroud .
A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
* Chapman
- The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
* Withals
- a vault, or shroud , as under a church
The branching top of a tree; foliage.
* '>citation
(nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
* See also Wikipedia article on
One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
Verb
( en-verb)
To cover with a shroud.
* Francis Bacon
- The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
- The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
- The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
* Sir Walter Raleigh
- One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
* Dryden
- Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.
To take shelter or harbour.
* Milton
- If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.
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