Shroud (shroud), 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.
Swaddled, as new born, in sable
shrouds.
Sandys.
2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a
winding sheet. "A dead man in his shroud."
Shak.
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. [Obs.]
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.
[R.]
The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches
and with a shadowing shroad.
Ezek. xxxi.
3.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shroud, v. i. To take shelter or
harbor. [Obs.]
If your stray attendance be yet lodged,
Or shroud within these limits.
Milton.
Shroud, v. t. To lop. See
Shrood. [Prov. Eng.]
Shroud (shroud), 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.
Swaddled, as new born, in sable
shrouds.
Sandys.
2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a
winding sheet. "A dead man in his shroud."
Shak.
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. [Obs.]
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.
[R.]
The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches
and with a shadowing shroad.
Ezek. xxxi.
3.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Shroud, v. i. To take shelter or
harbor. [Obs.]
If your stray attendance be yet lodged,
Or shroud within these limits.
Milton.
Shroud, v. t. To lop. See
Shrood. [Prov. Eng.]
