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Shrouded \Shroud"ed\, a. Provided with a shroud or shrouds.

Shrouded gear (Mach.), 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

 

Shroud \Shroud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shrouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrouding.]

[Cf. AS. scr?dan. See Shroud, n.]

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. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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