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Webster 1913 Edition


Shrouded

Shroud′ed

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Adj.
Provided with a shroud or shrouds.
Shrouded gear
(Mach.)
,
a cogwheel or pinion having flanges which form closed ends to the spaces between the teeth and thus strengthen the teeth by tying them together.

Webster 1828 Edition


Shrouded

SHROUD'ED

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pp.
Dressed; covered; concealed; sheltered; overwhelmed.

Definition 2024


shrouded

shrouded

English

Adjective

shrouded (comparative more shrouded, superlative most shrouded)

  1. Wearing, or provided with a shroud.
  2. Concealed or hidden from sight, as if by a shroud.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter II:
      She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

Derived terms

Verb

shrouded

  1. simple past tense and past participle of shroud