to veil, as in obscurity or mystery: They shrouded their past lives in an effort to forget.to wrap or clothe for burial enshroud.
a cone-shaped shield that protects the payload of a launch vehicle.(on a water wheel) one of two rings of boards or plates enclosing the buckets at their ends.(on a nonmetallic gear) an extended metal rim enclosing the ends of the teeth on either side.Also calledany of a number of suspension cords of a parachute attaching the load to the canopy.any of a number of taut ropes or wires converging from both sides on the head of a lower or upper mast of the outer end of a bowsprit to steady it against lateral sway: a part of the standing rigging.something that covers or conceals like a garment: a shroud of rain.a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.That which covers or shelters like a shroudĪ covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den also, a vault or cryptĪ set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects a garmentĮspecially, the dress for the dead a winding sheet Webster Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition: Or shroud within these limits, I shall know That in thick show’rs her rocky summit shrouds,Īnd darkens all the broken view with clouds. Thither the loud tumultuous winds resort,Īnd on the mountain keep their boist’rous court, Moon, slip behind some cloud: some tempest rise,Īnd blow out all the stars that light the skies, Under this thick-grown brake we’ll shroud ourselves,įor through this land anon the deer will come,Īnd in this covert will we make our stand, In careless sleep, all, without care or fear, That same evening, when all shrouded were That subtile wreath of hair about mine arm. The antient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen, besmeared with gums, like serecloth. The hope of Rome, and sav’d him in a cloud.Įdmund Waller. So Venus, from prevailing Greeks did shroud One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.īesides the faults men commit, with this immediate avowed aspect upon their religion, there are others which slily shroud themselves under the skirt of its mantle. The governors of Corfu caused the suburbs, which were very great, to be plucked down, for fear that the Turks shrouding themselves in them, should with more ease besiege the town. He got himself with his fellows to the town of Mege, in hope to shroud himself, until such time as the rage of the people were appeased. Under your beams I will me safely shroud. shroud a piece of cloth that a dead persons body is wrapped in before it is buried. Soft o’er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe,Įtymology: from the noun. The lucid squadrons round the sails repair: Seas dash on seas, and clouds encounter clouds. The cries of men are mix’d with rattling shrouds, The flaming shrouds so dreadful did appear,Īll judg’d a wreck could no proportion bear. Gladly the port, tho’ shrouds and takle torn. The tackle of my heart is crackt and burnt Īnd all the shrowds wherewith my life should sail, That with the hurley death itself awakes. With deafening clamours in the slipp’ry shrouds, Philip Sidney.Ĭurling their monstrous heads, and hanging them I turned back to the mast of the ship there I found my sword among some of the shrouds. It seems to be taken sometimes for the sails. Some better shroud, some better warmth, to cherish Of these fair spreading trees which bids us seek A shelter a cover.Īnd put yourself under his shroud, the universal landlord.Īnd swaddled, as new-born, in fable shrouds,īlow moist and keen, shattering the graceful locks Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: scrud, Saxon.
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