shroud
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: aerospace
astronautics
business
engineering
natural-sciences
nautical
physical-sciences
transport
Etymology: From Middle English shroud, from Old English sċrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).
Inflected forms:
form: shrouds
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: shrouds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: shrouding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: shrouded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: shrouded
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
pos: noun
examples: swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.
gloss: Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
pos: noun
examples: 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 […]
Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.
This is Radio Clash, you don't need that funeral shroud
gloss: That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
pos: noun
examples: Jura answers through her misty shroud.
gloss: A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
pos: noun
examples: The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
a vault, or shroud, as under a church
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
pos: noun
gloss: A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
pos: noun
gloss: To cover with a shroud.
pos: verb
examples: The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
The sliding door, which is fitted with a drop light, is shrouded with bristle-type draught excluders.
gloss: To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
pos: verb
examples: The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.
The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
Moon ſlip behind ſome Cloud, ſome Tempeſt riſe / And blovv out all the Stars that light the Skies, / To ſhrovvd my ſhame.
As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist.
There's a shadow just behind me
Shrouding every step I take
Making every promise empty
Pointing every finger at me
Waiting like a stalking butler
Who upon the finger rests
Murder now the path of must we
Just because the son has come
gloss: To take shelter or harbour.
pos: verb
examples: [T]hough this my vvorke, ovvne not vvorth enough to deſerve your patronage, yet ſuch is your benigne humanity, that I am confident you vvill daigne it your protection, under vvhich it vvillingly ſhrovvdes it ſelfe.
If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.
Synonyms: sindon
cloak
cover
mantle
veil
Derived words: barrel shroud
beshroud
futtock shroud
shroudie
shroud knot
shroud-laid
shroudless
shroudlike
shroud-waving
shroudy
unshroud
enshroud
overshroud
reshroud
shrouder
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