shroudy

English

Etymology

From shroud +‎ -y.

Adjective

shroudy (comparative more shroudy, superlative most shroudy)

Resembling or characteristic of a shroud.
- 1864, Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine (volumes 23-24, page 102)
  […] a 'shroudy; mist, which gradually assumed an angel form, and revealed the features of my precious sister.
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (obsolete) Affording shelter.
- 1634 October 9 (first performance), [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:
  If your stray attendance be yet lodg'd
  Within these shroudie limits.
- 1871, Virgil in English Rhythm (page 322)
  As when, within a shroudy pumice-rock / Ensconced, a shepherd hath [a swarm of] bees / Traced out, and filled it up with pungent smoke; […]
- 1881, Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art (page 94)
  Hence a shroudy tree is one with plenty of branches, affording shroud, or shelter.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shroudy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

hydrous