A shelter; a cover; that which covers, conceals or protects. Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. Sandys.

The dress of the dead; a winding sheet.

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.

A branch of a tree.

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.

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.

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.

To defend; to protect by hiding. So Venus from prevailing Greeks did shroud . The hope of Rome, and saved him in a cloud. Waller.

To overwhelm; as, to be shrouded in despair.

To lop the branches of a tree.

To take shelter or harbor. If your stray attendants be yet lodg’d . Or shroud within these limits- Milton.