n. A garment; a covering of the nature of a garment; something which envelops and conceals; clothing.n. A winding-sheet; a piece of linen or other cloth in which a dead body is enveloped; hence, by extension, a garment for the dead, as a long white robe or gown, prepared expressly for the burial.n. Protection.n. A place of shelter; covert; retreat.n. A place under ground, as the burrow of an animal, a vault, the crypt of a church, etc.: sometimes in the plural, used collectively as a singular.n. One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water-wheel which form the sides of the buckets.To cover as with a garment or veil; especially, to clothe (a dead body) for burial.To clothe one's self in; put on.To cover or deck as with a garment; overspread; inclose; envelop.To cover so as to disguise or conceal; veil; obscure.To shelter; screen; hide.To put one's self under cover; take shelter.To gather together, as beasts do for warmth.n. One of a set of strong ropes extending from a ship's mastheads to each side of the ship to support the mast.To lop the branches from; trim, as a tree.n. A cutting, as of a tree or plant; a slip.n. A bough; a branch; hence, collectively, the branching top or foliage of a tree.n. In machinery: A rim or flange cast on the ends of the teeth of a gear-wheel, so that they appear to be formed entirely or partly in the solid periphery of the wheel.n. In an undershot wheel, the cylindrical surface at the inner circumference or bottom of the bucket.n. The name given to the legendary portrait of Christ which is supposed to have been imprinted on the shroud in which he was wrapped in the tomb.