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n. (obsolete form of shroud English) vb. (context UK dialect English) (alternative form of shrood English)
Usage examples of "shrowd".
Nations that professe the trueth of Christianitie, thinke that they might haue shrowded them selues to be free from his tyrannie, and safe from his murderers and cruel executioners?
In his real, his intents were too lofty and comprehensive, as well as too assiduously shrowded from profane inspection, for them to scan.
The theme of our discourse was, commonly, too sacred for any ears but our own: Disclosures were of too intimate and delicate a nature, for any but a female audience: they were too injurious to the fame and peace of Ormond, for him to be admitted to partake of them: Yet his words implied a full acquaintance with recent events, and with purposes and deliberations, shrowded, as we imagined, in impenetrable secrecy.