See shrood.įrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License. intransitive verb obsolete To take shelter or harbor.transitive verb To cover, as with a shroud to protect completely to cover so as to conceal to hide to veil.transitive verb To cover with a shroud especially, to inclose in a winding sheet to dress for the grave.noun (Naut.) iron rods connecting the topmast rigging with the lower rigging, passing over the edge of the top.noun (Naut.) ropes extending from the head of the bowsprit to the sides of the vessel.noun (Mach.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets a shroud plate.The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts. noun (Naut.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts.noun rare The branching top of a tree foliage.noun obsolete A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den also, a vault or crypt.noun That which covers or shelters like a shroud.noun Especially, the dress for the dead a winding sheet.noun That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects a garment.noun The name given to the legendary portrait of Christ which is supposed to have been imprinted on the shroud in which he was wrapped in the tomb.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.noun In an undershot wheel, the cylindrical surface at the inner circumference or bottom of the bucket.noun In machinery: A rim or flange cast on the ends of the teeth of a gear-wheel, so that they appear to be formed entirely or partly in the solid periphery of the wheel.noun A bough a branch hence, collectively, the branching top or foliage of a tree.noun A cutting, as of a tree or plant a slip.To lop the branches from trim, as a tree.noun One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water-wheel which form the sides of the buckets.noun A place under ground, as the burrow of an animal, a vault, the crypt of a church, etc.: sometimes in the plural, used collectively as a singular.noun A place of shelter covert retreat.noun A winding-sheet a piece of linen or other cloth in which a dead body is enveloped hence, by extension, a garment for the dead, as a long white robe or gown, prepared expressly for the burial.noun A garment a covering of the nature of a garment something which envelops and conceals clothing.To gather together, as beasts do for warmth.To put one's self under cover take shelter.To cover so as to disguise or conceal veil obscure.To cover or deck as with a garment overspread inclose envelop.To cover as with a garment or veil especially, to clothe (a dead body) for burial.
noun A cloth used to wrap a body for burial a winding sheet.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
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