shroud

Noun · Verb
US[shroud]/ʃraʊd/1 syllable
Synonyms: sheettackmainsheetweather sheetpallcerementwinding-sheetwinding-clothesenshroudhidecover

Open English WordNet

Verb (3)shrouds, shrouded, shrouding

  1. cover as if with a shroud“The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery”Synonyms: enshroudhidecoverMore general envelop, enfold
  2. form a cover like a shroud“Mist shrouded the castle”More general cover, spread over
  3. wrap in a shroud“shroud the corpses”More general wrap, wrap up

Noun (3)shrouds

  1. a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachuteType of linePart of parachute, chute
  2. (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the windSynonyms: sheettackmainsheetweather sheetType of lineKinds cap shroud, futtock shroud, intermediate shroudPart of ship
  3. burial garment in which a corpse is wrappedSynonyms: pallcerementwinding-sheetwinding-clothesType of burial garment

Related words cerement noun, pall verb

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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Shroud (shroud), noun

Origin: OE. shroud, shrud, schrud, AS. scrūd a garment, clothing; akin to Icel. skruð 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. Vision of Piers Plowman

Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds.— George Sandys

2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. “A dead man in his shroud.” William Shakespeare

3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

Jura answers through her misty shroud.— George Noel Gordon, Ld. Byron

4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. obsolete

The shroud to which he won His fair-eyed oxen.— George Chapman
A vault, or shroud, as under a church.— Withals.

5. The branching top of a tree; foliage. rare

The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroad.— Ezek. xxxi. 3.

6. pl. Nautical 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.

7. Machinery One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

Bowsprit shrouds Nautical, ropes extending from the head of the bowsprit to the sides of the vessel. — Futtock shrouds Nautical, iron rods connecting the topmast rigging with the lower rigging, passing over the edge of the top. — Shroud plate. (a) Nautical An iron plate extending from the dead-eyes to the ship's side. Phila. 1881. Hamersly's Naval Encyclopaedia (b) Machinery A shroud. See def. 7, above.

Shroud transitive verb [past tense & past participle Shrouded; present participle & verbal noun Shrouding.]

Origin: Cf. AS. scr…dan. See Shroud, noun

1. To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.

The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.— Francis, Baron Verulam Bacon

2. To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.

One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.— Sir Walter Raleigh
Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that light the skies, To shroud my shame.— John Dryden
Shroud intransitive verb

To take shelter or harbor. obsolete

If your stray attendance be yet lodged, Or shroud within these limits.— John Milton
Shroud transitive verb

To lop. See Shrood. dialect (England)

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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