Definition of "shroud"

swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds

1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments

Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.

2019 April 25, Samanth Subramanian, “Hand dryers v paper towels: the surprisingly dirty fight for the right to dry your hands”, in The Guardian‎

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

c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]

Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.

1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter II, in The Last Man. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […]

The obstructive tendency attributed to the knot in spiritual matters appears in a Swiss superstition that if, in sewing a corpse into its shroud, you make a knot on the thread, it will hinder the soul of the deceased on its passage to eternity.

1911, James George Frazer, chapter V, in Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion; II), third edition, London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, page 310

Jura answers through her misty shroud.

1812–1818, Lord Byron, “(please specify |canto=I to IV)”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: Printed for John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], (please specify the stanza number)

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

c. 1618, George Chapman, Hymns of Homer

a vault, or shroud, as under a church

1554, John Withals, A Dictionarie in English and Latine

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.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887

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

1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]

One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.

1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], (please specify |book=1 to 5)

Moon ſlip behind ſome Cloud, ſome Tempeſt riſe / And blow out all the Stars that light the Skies, / To ſhrowd my ſhame.

1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour […]‎, London: Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, published 1667, Act III, scene ii, page 30

As we breasted the first summit, the precipitous mass of the Raven's Rock, towering some 250 ft. above the railway, looked grim and forbidding in the failing light, and distant Ben Wyves was shrouded in mist.

1951 January, H. A. Vallance, “Kyle of Lochalsh Revisited”, in Railway Magazine, page 14

If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.

1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903,

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.

1611, King James Version, “xxxi.iii”, in Ezekiel‎, Barker edition