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Shroud

//ʃraʊd// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

    "swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds"

  2. 2
    The branching top of a tree; foliage.

    "Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes."

  3. 3
    burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped wordnet
  4. 4
    Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

    "O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]"

  5. 5
    (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind wordnet
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  1. 6
    That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

    "Jura answers through her misty shroud."

  2. 7
    a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute wordnet
  3. 8
    A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

    "The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen."

  4. 9
    One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.

    "Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale."

  5. 10
    One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  6. 11
    A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
Verb
  1. 1
    To cover with a shroud.

    "The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums."

  2. 2
    To lop the branches from (a tree). UK, dialectal, transitive
  3. 3
    wrap in a shroud wordnet
  4. 4
    To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

    "The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery."

  5. 5
    cover as if with a shroud wordnet
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  1. 6
    To take shelter or harbour.

    "If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits."

  2. 7
    form a cover like a shroud wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

Etymology 2

From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrudāre), from Middle English schroud (“shroud”) (see above).

Etymology 3

Variant of shred.

Etymology 4

Variant of shred.

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