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Shroud :: Shroud (v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.

Chrisom :: Chrisom (n.) A child which died within a month after its baptism; -- so called from the chrisom cloth which was used as a shroud for it.

Collar :: Collar (n.) An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured..

Ratlins :: Ratlins (n. pl.) The small transverse ropes attached to the shrouds and forming the steps of a rope ladder.

Emboss :: Emboss (v. t.) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.

Unshroud :: Unshroud (v. t.) To remove the shroud from; to uncover.

Weather :: Weather (a.) Being toward the wind, or windward -- opposed to lee; as, weather bow, weather braces, weather gauge, weather lifts, weather quarter, weather shrouds, etc..

Shrouded :: Shrouded (imp. & p. p.) of Shrou.

Crosstrees :: Crosstrees (n. pl.) Pieces of timber at a masthead, to which are attached the upper shrouds. At the head of lower masts in large vessels, they support a semicircular platform called the top..

Scotchman :: Scotchman (n.) A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear.

Shroudless :: Shroudless (a.) Without a shroud.

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet..

Enshroud :: Enshroud (v. t.) To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also jack crosstree..

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A cushioned or a piece of soft wood covered with tarred canvas, placed on the trestletrees and against the mast, for the collars of the shrouds to rest on, to prevent chafing..

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

Black :: Black (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds..

Mizzen :: Mizzen (a.) Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc..

Swifter :: Swifter (n.) The forward shroud of a lower mast.

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