From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shrouding \Shroud"ing\, noun The shrouds. See {Shroud}, noun, 7.
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.
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