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Cerement :: Cerement (n.) Any shroud or wrapping for the dead.

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

Shrouded :: Shrouded (a.) Provided with a shroud or shrouds.

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.

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

Backstay :: Backstay (n.) A rope or stay extending from the masthead to the side of a ship, slanting a little aft, to assist the shrouds in supporting the mast..

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

Shrouding :: Shrouding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shrou.

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

Disenshrouded :: Disenshrouded (a.) Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled.

Benight :: Benight (v. t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

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

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..

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..

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..

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..

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

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..

Lanyard :: Lanyard (n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc..

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

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