Shrouded

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shrouded \Shroud"ed\, a.
     Provided with a shroud or shrouds.
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     {Shrouded gear} (Mach.), a cogwheel or pinion having flanges
        which form closed ends to the spaces between the teeth and


        thus strengthen the teeth by tying them together.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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              The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a
              number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
                                                    --Bacon.
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     2. To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to
        cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
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              One of these trees, with all his young ones, may
              shroud four hundred horsemen.         --Sir W.
                                                    Raleigh.
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              Some tempest rise,
              And blow out all the stars that light the skies,
              To shroud my shame.                   --Dryden.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  48 Moby Thesaurus words for "shrouded":
     armored, buried, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated,
     concealed, coped, covered, covert, cowled, curtained, eclipsed,
     encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed,
     floored, guarded, hidden, hooded, housed, loricate, loricated,
     mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted, packaged, paved,
     privy, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled, shielded,
     swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled, walled-in, wrapped