shroudyadj.
/ˈʃraʊdi/ rare.
Affording shelter.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > refuge or shelter > [adjective] > of the nature of a shelter > sheltering
shadowing1552
sheltering1616
shroudy?1634
overshadowing1650
sheltery1729
covering1790
?1634–7 J. Milton Comus (MS Trinity Coll. Cambr.) 18 If yor stray attendance be yet lodg'd wthin these shroudie limits.
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adj.?1634- to fall with
- to fall with bairn
- to fall with child
- to fall with one's nose in the butter
- to fall, come to the ground, sit between two stools
- to fall, get, go to loggerheads
- to fall, go, kneel, lie, set oneself, sit down on one's knees
- to fall, go, kneel, lie, set oneself, sit down on one's knees on knee(s
- to fall, lie in occasionally of swoon
- to fall, lie in occasionally on swoon
- to fall, lie in swoon
- to fall, lull, lay asleep
- to fall, lull, lay bring obs asleep
- to fall, run to mind
- to false
- to false a blow
- to false a doom
- to falsify a doom
- to falter forth or out
- to fame it
- to famish a dog's death
- to famish away
- to famish to death
- to famish with hunger
- to fan into