shroud
- Noun. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- Noun. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- Noun. That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- Noun. A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- Noun. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
- Noun. (nautical) A rope or cable serving to support the mast sideways.
- Noun. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
- Verb. To cover with a shroud.
- Verb. To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
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