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Shrow

//ʃɹəʊ// noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of shrew. alt-of, alternative, obsolete

    "What Hawke can sit, in peace for carraine crow? What tongue can scape, the skolding of a shrow."

Verb
  1. 1
    To hide or cover; to shroud. obsolete

    "Dense fogs followed; and early one morning, the city was shrowed in almost Egyptian darkness."

Etymology

Etymology 1

See shrew.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from shroud.

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