shroud

That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds

Every time we came a research area, we had to pause while the scientists threw grey shrouds over prototypes that I wasn’t to see.

Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

O, bid me leap, rather than marry Paris, From off the battlements of any tower, […] Or bid me go into a new-made grave And hide me with a dead man in his shroud […]

Yet let us goǃ England is in her shroud – we may not enchain ourselves to a corpse.

That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

Jura answers through her misty shroud.

A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

The shroud to which he won / His fair-eyed oxen.

a vault, or shroud, as under a church

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.

Then - a shock of water, a wild rush of boiling foam, and I was clinging for my life to the shroud, ay, swept straight out from it like a flag in a gale.

To cover with a shroud.

The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.

The sliding door, which is fitted with a drop light, is shrouded with bristle-type draught excluders.

To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.

The details of the plot were shrouded in mystery.

The truth behind their weekend retreat was shrouded in obscurity.

To take shelter or harbour.

[T]hough this my vvorke, ovvne not vvorth enough to deſerve your patronage, yet ſuch is your benigne humanity, that I am confident you vvill daigne it your protection, under vvhich it vvillingly ſhrovvdes it ſelfe.

If your stray attendance be yet lodged, / Or shroud within these limits.

The branching top of a tree; foliage.

Behold, the Assyrian was a Cedar in Lebanon with faire branches, and with a shadowing shrowd, and of an hie stature, and his top was among the thicke boughes.