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  • transitive verb Prov. Eng. See shrood.

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  • verb UK, dialect Alternative form of shrood.

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Examples

  • I blame the sychophants who hold his flowing robe, more descripitive, a flowing shrowd, growing longer with each death of an american or an Iraqi in Iraq, a death based on heinous preemptive lies.

    GOP Senator Warner "Reconsidering" Support For Webb Troop Bill 2009

  • I blame the sychophants who hold his flowing robe, more descripitive, a flowing shrowd, growing longer with each death of an american or an Iraqi in Iraq, a death based on heinous preemptive lies.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | GOP Senator Warner "Reconsidering" Support For Webb Troop Bill 2009

  • I hope the weight of that shrowd held up by the likes of the Warners, the Lugars, and the Powells prove so weighty, that they are unable to hold up the shrowd of hypocrosy, and finally shout to the world, enough is enough, and speak up.

    Election Central | Talking Points Memo | GOP Senator Warner "Reconsidering" Support For Webb Troop Bill 2009

  • I hope the weight of that shrowd held up by the likes of the Warners, the Lugars, and the Powells prove so weighty, that they are unable to hold up the shrowd of hypocrosy, and finally shout to the world, enough is enough, and speak up.

    GOP Senator Warner "Reconsidering" Support For Webb Troop Bill 2009

  • Kevin's 'worldview' is that they shrowd themselves in faux-liberal morality... but their ideal that there is a certain moral code that all media should follow or even TRY to follow is fascism - pure and simple.

    A special invitation from the Geena Davis Institute Kevin Koch 2008

  • What's most distressing about Geena Davis' and Kevin's 'worldview' is that they shrowd themselves in faux-liberal morality... but their ideal that there is a certain moral code that all media should follow or even TRY to follow is fascism - pure and simple.

    A special invitation from the Geena Davis Institute Kevin Koch 2008

  • Pallace, yea, most of the men and women dwelling in the Cittie, the bodie of Gabriello being laide in the midst of the Court, upon the white Damaske shrowd given by Andreana, with infinite Roses and other sweet Flowers lying theron: and such was the peoples love to him, that never was any mans death, more to be bemoaned and lamented.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Grieving greatly heereat, and being much discomforted, rufully hee went spying about the walls, for some place wherein to shrowd himselfe, at least, to keepe the snow from falling upon him.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Schedoni had been the more anxious to procure an immediate release for Vivaldi, lest a report of his situation should reach his family, notwithstanding the precautions, which are usually employed to throw an impenetrable shrowd over the prisoners of this dreadful tribunal, and bury them for ever from the knowledge of their friends.

    The Italian 2004

  • Her only shrowd was a white night-dress, yet the tender hands of her loved ones smoothed this out as carefully as if it had been of the finest satin.

    Allen Parker. Recollections of Slavery Times. 1895

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