Shroud

7 definitions found

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

  Shrood \Shrood\, v. t. [Cf. {Shroud}.] [Written also {shroud},
     and {shrowd}.]
     To trim; to lop. [Prov. Eng.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  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.
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              Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. --Sandys.
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     2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. "A
        dead man in his shroud." --Shak.
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     3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
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              Jura answers through her misty shroud. --Byron.
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     4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or
        den; also, a vault or crypt. [Obs.]
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              The shroud to which he won
              His fair-eyed oxen.                   --Chapman.
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              A vault, or shroud, as under a church. --Withals.
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     5. The branching top of a tree; foliage. [R.]
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              The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair
              branches and with a shadowing shroad. --Ezek. xxxi.
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     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.
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     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.
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     {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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shroud \Shroud\, v. i.
     To take shelter or harbor. [Obs.]
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           If your stray attendance be yet lodged,
           Or shroud within these limits.           --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shroud \Shroud\, v. t.
     To lop. See {Shrood}. [Prov. Eng.]
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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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shroud
       n 1: a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a
            parachute
       2: (nautical) 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: burial garment 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; "shroud the corpses"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  184 Moby Thesaurus words for "shroud":
     advocate, alpenstock, apparel, arm, armor, array,
     athletic supporter, attire, back, backbone, backing, bandeau,
     bearer, becloud, bedeck, bedrape, befog, blanket, bless, blind,
     block out, box, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, bundle up,
     buttress, camouflage, cane, carrier, case, cerecloth, cerement,
     cerements, cervix, champion, cloak, close, clothe, cloud, coat,
     compass about, conceal, copyright, corset, cover, cover up,
     coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, crate, crook,
     crutch, curtain, cushion, deck, defend, dight, disguise, dissemble,
     distract attention from, drape, drapery, dress, dud, eclipse,
     embox, embrace, encapsulate, encase, enclose, enclothe, endue,
     enfold, enrobe, ensconce, enshroud, ensure, envelop, enwrap, fence,
     fend, foundation garment, fulcrum, garb, garment, girdle,
     gloss over, graveclothes, guarantee, guard, guise, guy, guywire,
     habilitate, hanging, harbor, haven, hide, hood, housing, insure,
     invest, jock, jockstrap, keep, keep from harm, keep under cover,
     lap, mainstay, maintainer, make safe, mantle, mask, mast,
     muffle up, neck, nestle, obfuscate, obscure, obstruct, occult,
     pack, package, pall, patent, police, prop, protect, rag out,
     raiment, register, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest,
     resting place, ride shotgun for, rigging, robe, safeguard, screen,
     secure, shade, sheathe, shelter, shield, shoulder, shut off,
     shut out, slur over, smother, spine, sprit, staff,
     standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, strengthener,
     support, supporter, surround, sustainer, swaddle, swathe, tire,
     underwrite, upholder, varnish, veil, vestment, walking stick,
     whitewash, winding sheet, wrap, wrap about, wrap up