Word Meanings - UNSHROUD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To remove the shroud from; to uncover. P. Fletcher.
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- 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 - REMOVER
One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon. - REMOVED
1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n. - REMOVE
1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered - 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. - SHROUDING
The shrouds. See Shroud, n., 7. - SHROUDLESS
Without a shroud. - UNCOVER
1. To take the cover from; to divest of covering; as, to uncover a box, bed, house, or the like; to uncover one's body. 2. To show openly; to disclose; to reveal. "To uncover his perjury to the oath of his coronation." Milton. 3. To divest of the - SHROUDY
Affording shelter. Milton. - SHROUD-LAID
Composed of four strands, and laid right-handed with a heart, or center; -- said of rope. See Illust. under Cordage. - FLETCHER
One who fletches of feathers arrows; a manufacturer of bows and arrows. Mortimer. - UNSHROUD
To remove the shroud from; to uncover. P. Fletcher. - ENSHROUD
To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to shroud. Churchill. - BESHROUD
To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen. - DISENSHROUDED
Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled. The disenshrouded statue. R. Browning.