(n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a
garment.
(n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
(n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
(n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or
den; also, a vault or crypt.
(n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.
(n.) 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.
(n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water
wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
(n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding
sheet; to dress for the grave.
(n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover
so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
(v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.
(v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.
