Definition of shelter

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Shelter (v. t.) To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively..

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Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes..
Harbrough :: Harbrough () A shelter.
Emboss :: Emboss (v. t.) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood..
Housing :: Housing (n.) That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively..
Roof :: Roof (v. t.) To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter..
Hovel :: Hovel (v. t.) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
Umbrella :: Umbrella (n.) A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol..
Close-fights :: Close-fights (n. pl.) Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters..
Refuge :: Refuge (v. t.) To shelter; to protect.
Shelter :: Shelter (n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
Roofless :: Roofless (a.) Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless.
Share :: Share (v. t.) To partake of, use, or experience, with others; to have a portion of; to take and possess in common; as, to share a shelter with another..
Shelter :: Shelter (n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
Box :: Box (n.) A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box..
Camp :: Camp (n.) The ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc..
Cover :: Cover (n.) Shelter; protection; as, the troops fought under cover of the batteries; the woods afforded a good cover..
Unhive :: Unhive (v. t. v. t.) To deprive of habitation or shelter, as a crowd..
Winter-ground :: Winter-ground (v. t.) To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant..
Hedge :: Hedge (v. i.) To shelter one's self from danger, risk, duty, responsibility, etc., as if by hiding in or behind a hedge; to skulk; to slink; to shirk obligations..
Imbosom :: Imbosom (v. t.) To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove..
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