shroud

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

   “swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds”

2. isim Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

   “O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]”

3. isim That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

   “Jura answers through her misty shroud.”

4. isim A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

   “The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.”

5. isim One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.

   “Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale.”

6. isim One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
7. isim A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
8. fiil To cover with a shroud.

   “The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.”

9. fiil To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

   “The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.”

10. fiil To take shelter or harbour.

    “[T]hough this my vvorke, ovvne not vvorth enough to deſerve your patronage, yet ſuch is your benigne humanity, that I am confident you vvill daigne it your protection, under vvhich it vvillingly ſhrovvdes it ſelfe.”

11. isim The branching top of a tree; foliage.

    “Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.”

12. fiil To lop the branches from (a tree).