Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Sindon

Sindon , noun

[Latin, a kind of fine Indian cotton stuff, Greek {not transcribed}.]

1.
A wrapper. [Obsolete]
Wrapped in sindons of linen. — Bacon
2.
(Surgery) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine. — Dunglison