shroud
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
Jura answers through her misty shroud.
A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
(nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale.
One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
(astronautics) A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
To cover with a shroud.
To conceal or hide from view.
The signal was given by shrouding the lights.
One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
To take shelter or harbour.
The branching top of a tree; foliage.
Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a shadowing shroud, and of an high stature; and his top was among the thick boughs.
(UK, dialect) To lop the branches from (a tree).
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