Shroud

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shrouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrouding. ] [ Cf. AS. scr&unr_;dan. See Shroud, n. ] 1. To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil. [ 1913 Webster ]

One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen. Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some tempest rise,
And blow out all the stars that light the skies,
To shroud my shame. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take shelter or harbor. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

If your stray attendance be yet lodged,
Or shroud within these limits. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ 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. Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. “A dead man in his shroud.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jura answers through her misty shroud. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The shroud to which he won
His fair-eyed oxen. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

A vault, or shroud, as under a church. Withals. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The branching top of a tree; foliage. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroad. Ezek. xxxi. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Provided with a shroud or shrouds. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The shrouds. See Shroud, n., 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without a shroud. [ 1913 Webster ]