The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shrouding \Shroud"ing\, n. The shrouds. See Shroud, n., 7.
Shroud \Shroud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shrouded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shrouding.] [Cf. AS. scr?dan. See Shroud, n.]
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To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
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To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
One of these trees, with all his young ones, may shroud four hundred horsemen.
--Sir W. Raleigh.Some tempest rise, And blow out all the stars that light the skies, To shroud my shame.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
n. A shroud (qualifier: annular plate at the periphery of a water wheel, forming side of bucket). vb. (present participle of shroud English)
Usage examples of "shrouding".
The conflagration roared around him, entirely shrouding his body in a column of light.
She wore a cloak to cover her fine gown and a black lace shawl draped over her bright hair, shrouding her face.
And, almost immediately, she began to feel a quietude of spirit, as if something delicate descended upon her, and lay lightly about her, shrouding her from the troubles of the world.
Now I could see clearly that nucleus, that core shot through with flashing veins of radiance, that ever-shifting shape of glory through the shroudings of shimmering, misty plumes, throbbing lacy opalescences, vaporous spirallings of prismatic phantom fires.
While Elspeth had enjoyed the wildly overgrown Vale with its many shroudings of vine curtains and maskings of flowering bushes, she had to admit that it was a bit difficult to get around in.
The character was a hieroglyph written in dark bituminous brown, and seeming to represent a mummy whose shroudings were loosened about the legs and whose feet were set in the posture of a long stride.
I gestured at our netted gems, glinting bitterly like captured beasts' eyes, their otherworldly lusters biting through Behemoth's cyanic hue, and at our bales of infernal artifacts, bulging and jutting against their shroudings like the little bundled corpses of alien monsters.