shroud (choresh, "bough"): Winding-sheet for the dead. SeeBURIAL. Used in the King James Version, the English Revised VersionEze 31:3in the rare old sense of "shelter," "covering." the American Standard Revised Version has "a forest-like shade" choresh, "wood," "wooded height") (Isa 17:9, etc.). Compare Milton, Comus, 147.
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