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Definition of Shroud

1. Noun. A line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute.

2. Verb. Cover as if with a shroud. "The wind storms shroud the area with dust and dirt"; "The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery"

3. Noun. (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind.

4. Verb. Form a cover like a shroud. "Dust and dirt shroud the area"; "Mist shrouded the castle"

5. Noun. Burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped.

6. Verb. Wrap in a shroud. "Shroud the corpses"

Definition of Shroud

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

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

3. v. i. To take shelter or harbor.

4. v. t. To lop. See Shrood.

Definition of Shroud

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

2. Noun. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. ¹

3. Noun. That which covers or shelters like a shroud. ¹

4. Noun. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. ¹

5. Noun. The branching top of a tree; foliage. ¹

6. Noun. (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways. ¹

7. Noun. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate. ¹

8. Verb. To cover with a shroud. ¹

9. Verb. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shroud

1. to wrap in burial clothing [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Shroud

1. 1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. "Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds." (Sandys) 2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. "A dead man in his shroud." 3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud. "Jura answers through her misty shroud." (Byron) 4. 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." (Chapman) "A vault, or shroud, as under a church." (Withals) 5. The branching top of a tree; foliage. "The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroad." (Ezek. Xxxi. 3) 6. 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. 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 A shroud. See def. 7, above. Origin: OE. Shroud, shrud, schrud, AS. Scrd a garment, clothing; akin to Icel. Skru 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. 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." (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 W. Raleigh) "Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that light the skies, To shroud my shame." (Dryden) Origin: Cf. AS. Scrdan. See Shroud. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shroud

shroff shroffage shroffed shroffing shroffs shrog shrogs shroom shroomed shroomer

shroomers shroomhead shroomheads shrooming shrooms shroud-laid shroud knot shroud knots shrouded shrouded gear

shrouded gears shroudier shrouding shroudless shroudlike shrouds shroudy shrove shroved

Literary usage of Shroud

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(9) St. Swithin, see SWITHIN, SAINT That the authenticity of the shroud of Turin is taken for granted in various pronouncements of the Holy See cannot be ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"That the authenticity of the shroud of Turin is taken for granted in various pronouncements of the Holy See cannot be disputed. ..."

3. Poems of American History by Burton Egbert Stevenson (1908)
"THE WASHERS OF THE shroud ALONG a river-aide, I know not where, ... When empires must be wound, we bring the shroud, The time-old web of the implacable ..."

4. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Howard Mumford Jones, George Wiley Sherburn, Frank Martindale Webster (1918)
"THE WASHERS OF THE shroud OCTOBER, 1861 Pale fireflies pulsed within the meadow- mist ... The Sisters wash a shroud,—ill thing to hear 1" I, looking then, ..."

5. American Poems (1625-1892) by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1912)
"THE WASHERS OF THE shroud Along a river-side, I know not where, I walked last night in mystery of ... O'er what quenched grandeur must our shroud be drawn ? ..."

6. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"THE shroud Death, I say, my heart is bowed Unto thine, O mother! This red gown will make a shroud Good as any other. ..."

7. The New Poetry: An Anthology by Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson (1917)
"THE shroud Death, I say, my heart is bowed Unto thine, 0 mother! This red gown will make a shroud Good as any other. (I, that would not wait to wear My own ..."

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