{Shrouded gear} (Mach.), a cogwheel or pinion having flanges
which form closed ends to the spaces between the teeth and
thus strengthen the teeth by tying them together.
The ancient Egyptian mummies were shrouded in a
number of folds of linen besmeared with gums.
--Bacon.
2. 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.