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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.

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.

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

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

Wapp :: Wapp (n.) A rope with wall knots in it with which the shrouds are set taut.

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

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

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..

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

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

Swiftfoot :: Swifter (v. t.) To tighten, as slack standing rigging, by bringing the opposite shrouds nearer..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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