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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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disguise
English
Etymology
From Middle English disgisen, disguisen, borrowed from Old French desguiser (modern French déguiser), itself derived from des- (“dis-”) (from Latin dis-) + guise (“guise”) (from a Germanic source).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d?s??a?z/, /d?z??a?z/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d?s??a?z/, /d??ska?z/
- Hyphenation: dis?guise
- Rhymes: -a?z
Noun
disguise (countable and uncountable, plural disguises)
- Material (such as clothing, makeup, a wig) used to alter one’s visual appearance in order to hide one's identity or assume another.
- A cape and moustache completed his disguise.
- (figuratively) The appearance of something on the outside which masks what's beneath.
- The act of disguising, notably as a ploy.
- Any disguise may expose soldiers to be deemed enemy spies.
- (archaic) A change of behaviour resulting from intoxication.
Synonyms
- camouflage
- guise
- mask
- pretense
Translations
Verb
disguise (third-person singular simple present disguises, present participle disguising, simple past and past participle disguised)
- (transitive) To change the appearance of (a person or thing) so as to hide, or to assume an identity.
- Spies often disguise themselves.
- (transitive) To avoid giving away or revealing (something secret); to hide by a false appearance.
- He disguised his true intentions.
- (archaic) To affect or change by liquor; to intoxicate.
- I have just left the right worshipful, and his myrmidons, about a sneaker or five gallons; the whole magistracy was pretty well disguised before I gave them the slip.
Synonyms
- camouflage
- cloak
- mask
- hide
Derived terms
- disguisedly
- disguisement
- disguiser
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