Word Meanings - SHROUD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. (more info) clothing; akin to Icel. skru the shrouds of

Additional info about word: SHROUD

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. (more info) clothing; akin to Icel. skru the shrouds of a ship, furniture of a church, a kind of stuff, Sw. skrud dress, attire, and E. shred. See 1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. Piers Plowman. Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. Sandys. 2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. "A dead man in his shroud." Shak. 3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud. Jura answers through her misty shroud. Byron. 4. 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. Chapman. A vault, or shroud, as under a church. Withals. 5. The branching top of a tree; foliage. The Assyrian wad a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and with a shadowing shroad. Ezek. xxxi. 3. 6. pl.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHROUD)

• Muffle
• Shroud
• enfold
• disguise
• conceal
• envelop
• Mystery
• Enigma
• puzzle
• obscurity
• secrecy
• veil
• shroud
• arcanum

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SHROUD)

• Enlighten
• instruct
• illumine

Related words: (words related to SHROUD)

• PUZZLEMENT
  The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.
• PUZZLE
  1. Something which perplexes or embarrasses; especially, a toy or a problem contrived for testing ingenuity; also, something exhibiting marvelous skill in making. 2. The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle.
• ENIGMATIC; ENIGMATICAL
  Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
• PUZZLEDOM
  The domain of puzzles; puzzles, collectively. C. Kingsley.
• INSTRUCTRESS
  A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• CONCEALED
  Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
• SECRECY
  1. The state or quality of being hidden; as, his movements were detected in spite of their secrecy. The Lady Anne, Whom the king hath in secrecy long married. Shak. 2. That which is concealed; a secret. Shak. 3. Seclusion; privacy; retirement.
• SHROUD
  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. (more info) clothing; akin to Icel. skru the shrouds of
• ENVELOPMENT
  1. The act of enveloping or wrapping; an inclosing or covering on all sides. 2. That which envelops or surrounds; an envelop.
• ENIGMATICALLY
  Darkly; obscurely.
• DISGUISEMENT
  Disguise. Spenser.
• DISGUISEDLY
  In disguise.
• ILLUMINE
  To illuminate; to light up; to adorn.
• DISGUISEDNESS
  The state of being disguised.
• INSTRUCTION
  1. The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information. 2. That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted; as: Precept; information; teachings. Direction; order; command.
• CONCEALER
  One who conceals.
• SHROUDED
  Provided with a shroud or shrouds. Shrouded gear , a cogwheel or pinion having flanges which form closed ends to the spaces between the teeth and thus strengthen the teeth by tying them together.
• ENVELOPE; ENVELOP
  The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma. (more info) 1. That which envelops, wraps up, encases, or surrounds; a wrapper; an inclosing cover; esp., the cover or wrapper of a document, as of a letter.
• INSTRUCTER
  See INSTRUCTOR
• PREINSTRUCT
  To instruct previously or beforehand. Dr. H. More.
• UNSHROUD
  To remove the shroud from; to uncover. P. Fletcher.
• INCONCEALABLE
  Not concealable. "Inconcealable imperfections." Sir T. Browne.
• REILLUMINE
  To illumine again or anew; to reillume.
• SEVENFOLD
  Repeated seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount. "Sevenfold rage." Milton.
• MISINSTRUCT
  To instruct amiss.
• TENFOLD
  In tens; consisting of ten in one; ten times repeated. The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. Milton.
• BEMUFFLE
  To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up. Bemuffled with the externals of religion. Sterne.