shroud

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From Old English scrūd, from Proto-Germanic *skrūdą. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).

shroud (plural shrouds)

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- (Can we date this quote?) Sandys
  swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 2
  Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud - we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
  a dead man in his shroud
That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- (Can we date this quote?) Byron
  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.
- (Can we date this quote?) Chapman
  The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
- (Can we date this quote?) Withals
  a vault, or shroud, as under a church
The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- 1611, King James Bible, “xxxi.iii”, in Ezekiel‎^[1], Barker edition:
  Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.
(nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
- See also Wikipedia article on Shroud (sailing)
One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

dress for the dead

Latin: brandeum n
Malay: kafan
Maori: puraku, purutapu
Middle English: shroud
Norwegian:
Bokmål: svøp n, likskjorte m, f, liksvøp n
Persian: کفن‎ (fa) (kefen)
Polish: całun (pl) m
Portuguese: mortalha (pt) f, sudário (pt) m
Russian: са́ван (ru) m (sávan), пелена́ (ru) f (pelená), покро́в (ru) m (pokróv)
Scottish Gaelic: anart-bàis m
Somali: kafan
Spanish: sudario m, mortaja (es) f
Swedish: svepning (sv) c
Tagalog: lalab
Turkish: kefen (tr)

mast support

shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)

To cover with a shroud.
- (Can we date this quote?) Francis Bacon
  The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.

The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.
- (Can we date this quote?) Sir Walter Raleigh
  One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
- (Can we date this quote?) Dryden
  Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.
To take shelter or harbour.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
  If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.

to veil or conceal