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1. Shroud
   [comics] Shroud (Maximillian Quincy Coleridge) is a fictional superhero in the Marvel Comics universe. He first appeared in Super-Villain Team-Up #5, (April 1976), and was created by Steve Englehart and Herb Trimpe. ==Conception== Englehart has acknowledged that the character was intended as...
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2. Shroud
   Shroud usually refers to an item, such as a cloth, that covers or protects some other object. The term is most often used in reference to burial sheets, winding-cloths or winding-sheets, such as the famous Shroud of Turin or Tachrichim (burial shrouds) that Jews are dressed in for burial. Tradition...
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3. Shroud
   [sailing] On a sailboat, the shrouds are pieces of standing rigging which hold the mast up from side to side. There is frequently more than one shroud on each side of the boat. Usually a shroud will connect at the top of the mast, and additional shrouds might connect partway down the mast, d...
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4. shroud
   [Verb] To cover or hide.
   Example: The village was shrouded in mist for most of the day.
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5. shroud
   [n] - a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute 2. [v] - form a cover like a shroud 3. [v] - cover as if with a shroud 4. [v] - wrap in a shroud
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6. Shroud
   A gaseous and/or mechanical or physical barrier placed around the spraying process designed to reduce the ingress of air into the system and so reduce oxidation of the of the particles being sprayed.
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7. shroud
   extension of the fixed surface of aerofoil projecting behind hinge line of movable surface in order to reduce drag or to improve flight control Category: Transport • a structure or surface on an aircraft or rocket that functions to reduce drag,such as the streamlined nose of a satellite-...
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8. Shroud
   Shroud (shroud) noun [ Middle English shroud , shrud , schrud , Anglo-Saxon scrūd a garment, clothing; akin to Icelandic skruð the shrouds of a ship, furniture of a church, a kind of stuff, Swedish skrud
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9. Shroud
   Shroud transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Shrouded ; present participle & verbal noun Shrouding .] [ Confer Anglo-Saxon scr...dan . See Shroud ,
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10. Shroud
    Shroud intransitive verb To take shelter or harbor. [ Obsolete] « If your stray attendance be yet lodged, Or shroud within these limits.» Milton.
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11. Shroud
    Shroud transitive verb To lop. See Shrood . [ Prov. Eng.]
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12. shroud
    1. That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment. 'Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds.' (Sandys) ... 2. Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet. 'A dead man in his shroud.' ... 3. That which covers or shelters like a shroud. 'Jura answers through her misty shroud.' (B...
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13. shroud
    hide verb cover as if with a shroud; `The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery`
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14. shroud
    cerement noun burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
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15. Shroud
    • (n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil. • (n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage. • (n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt. • (n.) To cover with a shroud; especi...
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16. shroud
    (from the article `religious dress`) ...and by the host at the seder (meal) on Passover (a feast celebrating the Exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt in the 13th century ). Officiants at the ... For all Muslims of whatever sect the standard graveclothes are the threefold linen shroud, or kafan: the izr, or lower garment; the rid`, or upper ...
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17. shroud
    (from the article `rigging`) The basis of all rigging is the mast, which may be composed of one or many pieces of wood or metal. The mast is supported by stays and shrouds that ...
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18. shroud
    a part of a component or an accessory which provides physical protection to otherwise exposed terminals or contacts
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19. Shroud
    Standing rigging that supports a mast laterally.
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20. Shroud
    [disambiguation] A shroud is a burial cloth. Shroud may also refer to: == See also == ...
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21. Shroud
    [novel] Shroud is a 2003 novel by John Banville. ==Plot summary== Axel Vander, famous man of letters and recently widowed, travels to Turin to meet a young woman called Cass Cleave. Cleave is a literary researcher and she has unearthed two secrets about Vander`s early years in Antwerp, the f...
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