shroudless

[Eng. shroud; -le .] Without a shroud. Dodsley: Melpomene. "Lies shroudle , unentombed." *shroud-, *shroud-ie, a . [Eng. shroud; -y.] Affording shelter. "If your stray attendance be yet lodg'd Within these shroudie limits." Milton: MS. of Comus, Trinity College, Cambridge. shrōve, pret . of v . [SHRIVE.] *shrōve, v. i . [SHROVE-TIDE.] To join in the festivities of Shrove-tide; hence, to make merry. "What else, I beseech you, was the whole life of this miserable man here, but in a manner a perpetual shroving?"-Hale: Sermon on Luke xvi. 25 (ed. 1683), p. 4. Shrove-tide, s. Confe ion time; specifically, the time when people were shriven preparatory to "An equivocal reference to shrouds in the sense of the Lent; the period between the evening of the Satur IMG:content-1407.png:[blocks in formation] "Kneel thee down by me, And shrive thee so clean of thy deadly sin." Scott: Gray Brother. B. Intransitive : 1. To administer confe ion and absolution. "Where holy fathers wont to shrive." Spenser: Shepherds Calendar ; Aug. *2. To confe , to make confe ion. "And who art thou, thou Gray Brother, That I should shrive to thee?" Scott: Gray Brother.