Shroud

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.

(2): ( n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.

(3): ( n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.

(4): ( v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.

(5): ( v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.

(6): ( n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.

(7): ( n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.

(8): ( n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.

(9): ( n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.

(10): ( n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

(11): ( n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.

King James Dictionary

SHROUD, n.

1. A shelter a cover that which covers, conceals or protects.

Swaddled, as new born, in sable shrouds. Sandys.

2. The dress of the dead a winding sheet. 3. Shroud or shrouds of a ship, a range of large ropes extending from the head of a mast to the right and left sides of the ship, to support the mast as the main shrouds fore shrouds mizen shrouds. There are also futtock shrouds, bowsprit shrouds, &c. 4. A branch of a tree. Not proper.

SHROUD,

1. To cover to shelter from danger or annoyance.

Under your beams I will me safely shroud. Spenser.

One of these trees with all its young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen. Raleigh.

2. To dress for the grave to cover as a dead body.

The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in several folds of linen besmeared with gums. Bacon.

3. To cover to conceal to hide as, to be shrouded in darkness.

-Some tempest rise,

And blow out all the stars that light the skies,

To shroud my name. Dryden.

4. To defend to protect by hiding.

So Venus from prevailing Greeks did shroud

The hope of Rome, and saved him in a cloud. Waller.

5. To overwhelm as, to be shrouded in despair. 6. To lop the branches of a tree. Unusual or improper.

SHROUD, To take shelter or harbor.

If your stray attendants be yet lodg'd

Or shroud within these limits- Milton.

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

SHROUD . This word is used in   Ezekiel 31:3 in the general sense of ‘shelter’ ‘covering,’ as in Milton’s Comus , 147 ‘Run to your shrouds, within these brakes and trees.’

Morrish Bible Dictionary

The 'shadowing shroud' signifies the shelter given by the spreading boughs of a great tree: such as the one to which Assyria is compared.  Ezekiel 31:3 .

Holman Bible Dictionary

 Matthew 27:59-61 Mark 14:51-52

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

shroud ( חרשׁ , ḥōresh , "bough"): Winding-sheet for the dead. See Burial . Used in the King James Version, the English Revised Version  Ezekiel 31:3 in the rare old sense of "shelter," "covering." the American Standard Revised Version has "a forest-like shade" חרשׁ , ḥōresh , "wood," "wooded height") ( Isaiah 17:9 , etc.). Compare Milton, Comus , 147.

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

is the rendering of the A.V. in  Ezekiel 31:3, of חֹרֶשׁ , Choresh, A Thicket ("forest,"  2 Chronicles 27:4; "bough,"  Isaiah 17:9; elsewhere "wood").