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n.  
  1. A cloth used to wrap a body for burial; a winding sheet.
  2. Something that conceals, protects, or screens: under a shroud of fog.
    1. Nautical One of a set of ropes or wire cables stretched from the masthead to the sides of a vessel to support the mast.
    2. A similar supporting line for a smokestack or comparable structure.
    3. One of the ropes connecting the harness and canopy of a parachute.

v.   shroud·ed, shroud·ing, shrouds

v.   tr.
  1. To wrap (a corpse) in burial clothing.
  2. To shut off from sight; screen. See Synonyms at block.
  3. Archaic To shelter; protect.

v.   intr. Archaic
To take cover; find shelter.


[Middle English schrud, garment, from Old English scrūd.]

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Shrouded

Shroud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shrouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrouding.] [Cf. AS. scr?dan. See Shroud, n.]

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.
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