Shroud

shrowd, n. That which clothes, covers, ceals, or protects; a garment; esp., a winding-sheet or dre for the dead; that which clothes, covers, shelters, like a shroud, pi. (Naut.) A set of ropes reaching from the mast-heads to the sides of a ve el, to support the masts: see Ship. — v.t. To cover with a shroud; esp., to inclose in a winding-sheet; to cover, as with a shroud; to hide, veil. Shrove-tide, shr5v'tTd, -Tuesday, -tuz'dY, n. The Tuesday following Quinquagesima Sunday, and preceding the first da}' of Lent, or Ash-Wednesday, on which day it was formerly customary in Eng. for the people to confe their sins Shrouds, to the priests.— Shrive, shrlv, v. t. [shrived (shrlvd), shriving.] To hear or receive the confe ion absolve, — said of a priest; to confe , — used ively. — v. i. To receive confe ions. — Shrift, Confe ion made to a priest; act of shriving; lution.