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enwrap
English
Alternative forms
- inwrap
Etymology
From Middle English enwrappen, inwrappen (“to wrap in”), equivalent to en- +? wrap. Compare also Middle English inwlappen (See lap, “to enwrap”). More at en-, wrap. Cognate via Old French with envelop, envelope. Doublet of envelop.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æp
Verb
enwrap (third-person singular simple present enwraps, present participle enwrapping, simple past and past participle enwrapped)
- To wrap around, surround; to envelop
- To absorb completely or engross
Derived terms
- enwrapment
Related terms
- unwrap
Translations
Anagrams
- pawner
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shroud
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??a?d/
- Rhymes: -a?d
Etymology 1
From Middle English shroud, from Old English s?r?d, from Proto-Germanic *skr?d?. Cognate with Old Norse skrúð (“the shrouds of a ship”) ( > Danish, Norwegian skrud (“splendid attire”)).
Noun
shroud (plural shrouds)
- That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
- 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
- swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds
- 1636, George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Psalms and Hymns dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments
- Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 2
- Yet let us go? England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 2
- That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
- A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
- 1618, George Chapman, Homeric Hymns
- The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.
- 1554, John Withals, A Dictionarie in English and Latine
- a vault, or shroud, as under a church
- 1618, George Chapman, Homeric Hymns
- (nautical) One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
- One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
Synonyms
- sindon
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English schrouden (> Anglo-Latin scrud?re), from Middle English schroud (“shroud”) (see above).
Verb
shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)
- To cover with a shroud.
- To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
- One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- Some tempest rise, / And blow out all the stars that light the skies, / To shroud my shame.
- To take shelter or harbour.
Translations
Etymology 3
Variant of shred.
Noun
shroud (plural shrouds)
- The branching top of a tree; foliage.
Verb
shroud (third-person singular simple present shrouds, present participle shrouding, simple past and past participle shrouded)
- (transitive, Britain, dialect) To lop the branches from (a tree).
- Synonym: shrood
References
- Shroud (sailing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- shroud in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- shroud at OneLook Dictionary Search
Middle English
Alternative forms
- shroude, shroute, sheroude, shrude, shrute
- scrude, sroude, srout, srud, sruð, ssroud (early)
Etymology
From Old English s?r?d.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ru?d/
Noun
shroud (plural shroudes)
- garment, priestly vestment
Descendants
- English: shroud
- Yola: shrude
References
- “shr?ud, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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