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

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave..

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

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

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate..

Shroud-laid :: Shroud-laid (a.) Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage..

Shrouding :: Shrouding (n.) The shrouds. See Shroud, n., 7..

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

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment..

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

Cat-harping :: Cat-harping (n.) One of the short ropes or iron cramps used to brace in the shrouds toward the masts so a to give freer sweep to the yards.

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.

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