SHROUD

I. noun see: shred Date: 14th century shelter , protection , something that covers, screens, or guards: as, one of two flanges that give peripheral support to turbine or fan bedding, a usually fiberglass guard that protects a spacecraft from the heat of launching, burial garment ; winding-sheet , cerement , 4. one of the ropes leading usually in pairs from a ship's mastheads to give lateral support to the masts, one of the cords that suspend the harness of a parachute from the canopy, II. verb Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. to cover for protection, conceal , 2. to cut off from view ; obscure , to veil under another appearance (as by obscuring or disguising) , to dress for burial, intransitive verb to seek shelter