Shroud
[ʃraʊd]
Definition
(noun.) a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute.
(verb.) wrap in a shroud; 'shroud the corpses'.
(verb.) cover as if with a shroud; 'The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery'.
(verb.) form a cover like a shroud; 'Mist shrouded the castle'.
Checker: Tom--From WordNet
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.
Typed by Catherine
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Winding sheet, grave-clothes.
v. a. Cover, hide, veil, mask, cloak, screen, bury, muffle.
Checked by Brett
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Cover, {[hfHe]?}, veil, obscure, darken, palliate, envelop, shelter
ANT:Expose, reveal, {[nnvefl]?}, elucidate, discover, uncover
Checker: Noelle
Definition
n. the dress of the dead a winding-sheet: that which clothes or covers: any underground hole a vault burrow &c.: (pl.) a set of ropes from the mast-heads to a ship's sides to support the masts.—v.t. to enclose in a shroud: to cover: to hide: to shelter.—v.i. to take shelter.—adjs. Shroud′less without a shroud; Shroud′y giving shelter.
v.t. (prov.) to lop the branches from as a tree.—n. a cutting a bough or branch the foliage of a tree.
Typist: Lucas
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a shroud, denotes sickness and its attendant distress and anxiety, coupled with the machinations of the evil-minded and false friends. Business will threaten decline after this dream. To see shrouded corpses, denotes a multitude of misfortunes. To see a shroud removed from a corpse, denotes that quarrels will result in alienation.
Checker: Walter
Examples
- She had already, alone as she was, accomplished some of these, and the work on which I found her employed, was her mother's shroud. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Other accounts make Charles wear a shroud and lie in the coffin, remaining there alone until the last mourner had left the chapel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was his mother's shroud, he thought; but Cassy had it, holding it up, and showing it to him. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight; but whether gown, sheet, or shroud, I cannot tell. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- So do nuns, with their close cell, their iron lamp, their robe strait as a shroud, their bed narrow as a coffin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He is so; but then he has passed all his life on board a vessel, and has scarcely an idea beyond the rope and the shroud. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In all other respects Fosco, on that memorable day, was Fosco shrouded in total eclipse. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- I indicated in what direction the mist had shrouded the other man, and he looked up at it for an instant. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The next operation then is to disengage the shrouded image, and this is accomplished by a solvent. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Don't use such dreadful expressions, replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The early history of Damascus is shrouded in the mists of a hoary antiquity. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mr. Weller nodded his acquiescence in the sentiment, and again fastening his eyes on the fire, shrouded himself in a cloud, and mused deeply. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- One or two small shrouded lamps placed on the floor served dimly to light the way to a few descending steps, and the voice of an invisible guide gave directions to walk forward. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I will _not_ prison it in the linen press to find shrouds among the sheets. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- No one ventured on board the vessel, and strange sights were averred to be seen at night, walking the deck, and hanging on the masts and shrouds. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He almost thought that shrouds were for the old and shrunken; and that they never wrapped the young and graceful form in their ghastly folds. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- For instance-- For instance, returned Madame Defarge, composedly, shrouds. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Horrible thoughts of death, and shrouds with blood upon them, and a fear that has made me burn as if I was on fire, have been upon me all day. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Earth is to me a tomb, the firmament a vault, shrouding mere corruption. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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