shroudy

comparative more shroudy · superlative most shroudy

1. Resembling or characteristic of a shroud.

   […] a shroudy mist, which gradually assumed an angel form, and revealed the features of my precious sister.

   1864, Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine, volumes 23-24, page 102

2. obsoleterareAffording shelter.

   If your stray attendance be yet lodg'd Within these shroudie limits.

   Comus

   1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC

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   As when, within a shroudy pumice-rock / Ensconced, a shepherd hath [a swarm of] bees / Traced out, and filled it up with pungent smoke; […]

   1871, Virgil in English Rhythm, page 322

   Hence a shroudy tree is one with plenty of branches, affording shroud, or shelter.

   1881, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 94