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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shroud \Shroud\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Shrouded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shrouding}.] [Cf. AS. scr?dan. See {Shroud}, noun]
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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shrouded \Shroud"ed\, adjective 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.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "shrouded": armored, buried, cased, ceiled, cloaked, clouded, coated, concealed, coped, covered, covert, cowled, curtained, eclipsed, encapsulated, encapsuled, encased, enveloped, enwrapped, filmed, floored, guarded, hidden, hooded, housed, loricate, loricated, mantled, masked, muffled, obscured, occulted, packaged, paved, privy, roofed-in, screened, scummed, sheathed, shelled, shielded, swathed, tented, under cover, veiled, walled, walled-in, wrapped
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