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Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary
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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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1828 Definition
SHROUD, n.
1. A shelter; a cover; that which covers, conceals or protects.
Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. Sandys.
2. The dress of the dead; a winding sheet.
3. Shroud or shrouds of a ship, a range of large ropes extending from the head of a mast to the right and left sides of the ship, to support the mast; as the main shrouds; fore shrouds; mizen shrouds. There are also futtock shrouds, bowsprit shrouds, &c.
4. A branch of a tree. [Not proper.]
SHROUD, v.t.
1. To cover; to shelter from danger or annoyance.
Under your beams I will me safely shroud. Spenser.
One of these trees with all its young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen. Raleigh.
2. To dress for the grave; to cover; as a dead body.
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in several folds of linen besmeared with gums. Bacon.
3. To cover; to conceal to hide; as, to be shrouded in darkness.
-Some tempest rise,
And blow out all the stars that light the skies,
To shroud my name. Dryden.
4. To defend; to protect by hiding.
So Venus from prevailing Greeks did shroud
The hope of Rome, and saved him in a cloud. Waller.
5. To overwhelm; as, to be shrouded in despair.
6. To lop the branches of a tree. [Unusual or improper.]
SHROUD, v.i. To take shelter or harbor.
If your stray attendants be yet lodg'd
Or shroud within these limits- Milton.
1913 Definition
That which clothes, covers, conceals, or
protects; a garment.
Piers Plowman.
Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. Sandys. Especially, the dress for the dead; a
winding sheet.
"A dead man in his shroud."
Shak. That which covers or shelters like a
shroud.
Jura answers through her misty shroud. Byron. A covered place used as a retreat or
shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
[Obs.]
The shroud to which he won A vault, or shroud, as under a church. Withals. The branching top of a tree; foliage.
[R.]
The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroad. Ezek. xxxi. 3. A set of ropes
serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured
to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the
head of the lower masts.
One of the two annular
plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the
buckets; a shroud plate.
Bowsprit shrouds (Naut.), ropes
extending from the head of the bowsprit to the sides of the
vessel. -- Futtock shrouds (Naut.),
iron rods connecting the topmast rigging with the lower rigging,
passing over the edge of the top. -- Shroud
plate. To cover with a shroud;
especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the
grave.
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums. Bacon. To cover, as with a shroud; to protect
completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen. Sir W. Raleigh. Some tempest rise, To take shelter or
harbor.
[Obs.]
If your stray attendance be yet lodged, To lop. See
Shrood.
[Prov. Eng.] | ||||||||
d a garment,
clothing; akin to Icel. skruð the shrouds of a ship,
furniture of a church, a kind of stuff, Sw. skrud dress,
attire, and E. shred
