Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shrouding"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shroud \Shroud\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shrouded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shrouding}.] [Cf. AS. scr?dan. See {Shroud}, n.]
1. To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a
winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Shrouding \Shroud"ing\, n.
The shrouds. See {Shroud}, n., 7.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
shrouding
adj : concealing by enclosing or wrapping as if in something that
is not solid; "the enveloping darkness"; "hills
concealed by shrouding mists" [syn: {enveloping(a)}, {shrouding(a)}]
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