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shroud

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1. shroud - Noun

2. shroud - Verb

Meaning

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

The branching top of a tree; foliage.

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.

One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.

To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.

To take shelter or harbor.

To lop. See Shrood.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud. Walt Whitman

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something. Robert Penn Warren

Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God. Honoré de Balzac

We're alive from lack of a shroud. Persian Proverb

The dying person cannot wait for the shroud to be woven. Madagascan Proverb

The richest man carries nothing away with him but a shroud. French Proverb

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