shroud /ˈʃɹaʊ̯d/noun 8verb 4forms 5 noun8 •That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds — 1636 •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 […] — 1591 •That which covers or shelters like a shroud.Jura answers through her misty shroud. — 1812 •A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch. •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. — 1886 •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. — 1618 •One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. •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. — 1611 verb4 •To cover with a shroud.The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums. — 1627 •To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity. •To take shelter or harbour.If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits. — 1634 •(dialect, UK) To lop the branches from (a tree). formsshrouded · shrouding · shroudeth · shrouds · shroudest
