Shroud

shrowd, n. That which clothes, covers, con- ceals, or protects; a garment: esp., a winding-sheet or dre for the dead; that which clothes, covers, or shelters, like a shroud, pi. (Navt.) A set of ropes reaching from the mast-heads to the sides of a ve el, — to support the masts: see Ship. v. To cover with shroud: esp., to inclose in a winding-sheet to cover, as with a shroud to hide, veil. [AS. scrud, a garment, clothing, Ic. skrudh, shrouds of a ship, furniture of a church, Norweg., Dan., and Sw. skrud, dre ; shred.] Shrove-tide, shiov'tid, -Tuesday, -tuz'dt, n. The Tuesday following Quinquagesima Sunday, and snrouas. preceding the first day of Lent, or Ash-Wednesday, on which day was formerly customary in Eng. for the people to confe their sins to their parish priests. [Shrove ME. shrof, shroof, prop. imp. of schriren, shriven, AS. scrir'an, to shrive, impose a penance upon, to judge, L. scribere (= G. schreiben), to write, draw up a law, impose a legal penalty, prescribe a penance; scribe, prescribe, etc.] — Shrive, shriv, v. [shrived (shnvd), shriving.] To hear or receive the confe ion of and absolve, — said of a priest; to confe , — used refiexively. — v. To receive confe ions. — Shrift, n. Confe ion made to a priest; act of shriving; absolution. [AS. scrift (whence Ic. and Sw. skrift) = L. sept us, p. p. of scribere.]