shroud
21shroud — n. & v. n. 1 a sheetlike garment for wrapping a corpse for burial. 2 anything that conceals like a shroud (wrapped in a shroud of mystery). 3 (in pl.) Naut. a set of ropes forming part of the standing rigging and supporting the mast or topmast. v …
22shroud — Shrood Shrood, v. t. [Cf. {Shroud}.] [Written also {shroud}, and {shrowd}.] To trim; to lop. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster] …
23shroud — 1. noun a) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. b) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. 2 …
24shroud — Gullah Words shroud, shrouds; also surplice, surplices, as: De Piskubble preechuh pit on e shroud …
25shroud — i. A sheet metal cover placed over an air cooled engine to pick up and force cooling air through the cylinder fins to remove heat. ii. A peripheral ring called a turbine shroud ring, fitted to prevent the escape of gas past the tips of turbine… …
26shroud — 1 noun (C) 1 a cloth that is wrapped around a dead person s body before it is buried 2 something that hides or covers something: The fog rolled in, and a grey shroud covered the city. (+ of): A shroud of silence surrounded the general s death. 2… …
27shroud — [[t]ʃraʊd[/t]] n. 1) a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial 2) something that covers, conceals, or protects: a shroud of darkness[/ex] 3) navig. any of a number of fixed ropes or wires that converge from the head of a ship s… …
28shroud — [OE] Shroud originally meant simply ‘garment’ – a sense which survived into the early modern English period (‘My princely robes are laid aside, whose glittering pomp Diana’s shrouds supplies’, Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, Dido Queen of… …
29shroud — ʃraÊŠd n. burial cloth, sheet used to wrap a body for burial, cerement; covering, something that covers like a shroud; one of the ropes supporting a ship s mast v. wrap in cerements, wrap a corpse in a burial cloth; conceal, obscure, screen from …
30shroud — 1. noun a shroud of mist Syn: covering, cover, cloak, mantle, blanket, layer, cloud, veil, winding sheet 2. verb shrouded by cloud Syn: cover, envelop, veil, cloak, blank …
