shroud

Short definition from Wiktionary

Noun

1. 1
   That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
2. 2
   Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
3. 3
   That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
4. 4
   A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
5. 5
   One of a set of ropes or cables (rigging) attaching a mast to the sides of a vessel or to another anchor point, serving to support the mast sideways; such rigging collectively.
6. 6
   One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
7. 7
   A streamlined protective covering used to protect the payload during a rocket-powered launch.
8. 8
   The branching top of a tree; foliage.

Verb

1. 1
   To cover with a shroud.
2. 2
   To conceal or hide from view, as if by a shroud.
3. 3
   To take shelter or harbour.
4. 4
   To lop the branches from (a tree).