Shroud

Definition:

  • (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
  • (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
  • (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
  • (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
  • (n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
  • (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
  • (n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
  • (v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.
  • (v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.

Compare shroud with other words:

shrood vs. shroud

shroud vs. stroud

shroud vs. shrowd

shroud vs. shroudy

cod vs. shroud

shroud vs. unshroud

beshroud vs. shroud

drape vs. shroud

shroud vs. veil

butterfly vs. shroud

shroud vs. stay

shroud vs. swifter

cerement vs. shroud

enshroud vs. shroud

scotchman vs. shroud

shroud vs. spreader

shroud vs. shrouded

backstay vs. shroud

rig vs. shroud

shroud vs. whisker

shroud vs. telltale

caul vs. shroud

channel vs. shroud

hide vs. shroud

dead vs. shroud

shelter vs. shroud

dress vs. shroud

garment vs. shroud

protect vs. shroud

conceal vs. shroud

cover vs. shroud

cloth vs. shroud