The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a
shadowing shroad.
Ezek. xxxi. 3.
6. pl. (Naut.) 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.
7. (Mach.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water
wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
Bowsprit shrouds (Naut.), ropes extending from the head of the bowsprit
to the sides of the vessel. -- Futtock shrouds (Naut.), iron rods
connecting the topmast rigging with the lower rigging, passing over the
edge of the top. -- Shroud plate. (a) (Naut.) An iron plate extending
from the dead-eyes to the ship's side. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (b) (Mach.) A
shroud. See def. 7, above.
Shroud, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shrouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrouding.] [Cf.
AS. scr&?;dan. See Shroud, n.] 1. To cover with a shroud; especially,
to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of
linen besmeared with gums.
Bacon.
2. To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to
conceal; to hide; to veil.
One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four
hundred horsemen.
Sir W. Raleigh.
Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that light the skies,
To shroud my shame.
Dryden.