<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.</li><li>Synonyms: winding sheet.</li><li>something that covers or conceals like a garment: a shroud of rain.</li><li>Nautical: any of a number of taut ropes or wires converging from both sides on the head of a lower or upper mast of the outer end of a bowsprit to steady it against lateral sway: a part of the standing rigging.</li><li>Also called shroud line.</li><li>Aeronautics: any of a number of suspension cords of a parachute attaching the load to the canopy. Also called shrouding.</li><li>Machinery: (on a nonmetallic gear) an extended metal rim enclosing the ends of the teeth on either side.</li><li>(on a water wheel) one of two rings of boards or plates enclosing the buckets at their ends.</li><li>Rocketry: a cone-shaped shield that protects the payload of a launch vehicle.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to wrap or clothe for burial; enshroud.</li><li>to cover; hide from view.</li><li>Synonyms: screen, conceal.</li><li>to veil, as in obscurity or mystery: They shrouded their past lives in an effort to forget.</li><li>to provide (a water wheel) with a shroud.</li><li>Obsolete: to shelter.</li><li>(used without object) Archaic: to take shelter.</li></ul>