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ˈshrouded, ppl. a. [f. shroud v.1 + -ed1.] Concealed, veiled; sheltered; enveloped in a shroud.
1600Nashe Summers Last Will G 2 Cunning shrowded rogues. 1708Phil. Trans. XXVI. 79 The Pholad, or Shrouded Shell. 1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Lady Griseld Baillie xli, Joy appears with shrouded head. 1821Lamb Elia i. Old Benchers Inner T., That goodly pile..confronting..the lighter, older, more fantastically shrouded one. 1840Carlyle Heroes vi, Brave old Samuel Johnson, in his shrouded-up existence. 1870Disraeli Lothair lxi, One of them pressed her finger to her shrouded lips. 1888Meredith Hymn to Colour v, Shall man.. learn the secret of the shrouded death, By lifting up the lid of a white eye? b. Mech. (See quot.)
1875Knight Dict. Mech., Shrouded gear,..cog-gear in which the cogs are protected by a flange coming out even with the face of the wheel, so that the interdental spaces are in effect mortises in the face of the wheel. |