SHROUD (2)

shroud (2)|shrowd. Shroud, or Shrowd, v. to dress the dead, defend, protect, save, conceal, shelter, take shelter

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Shroud, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shrouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrouding.] [[Cf. AS. scr�dan. See Shroud, n.]] 1. 1. 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. 2. 2. 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, And blow out all the stars that light the skies, To shroud my shame. Dryden.