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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Harbor :: Harbor (n.) A station for rest and entertainment; a place of security and comfort; a refuge; a shelter.
Defilade :: Defilade (v. t.) To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point..
Greenhouse :: Greenhouse (n.) A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
Shelter :: Shelter (v. i.) To take shelter.
Hibernacle :: Hibernacle (n.) That which serves for protection or shelter in winter; winter quarters; as, the hibernacle of an animal or a plant..
Unhoused :: Unhoused (a.) Not provided with a house or shelter; houseless; homeless.
Unharbored :: Unharbored (a.) Having no harbor or shelter; unprotected.
Enshelter :: Enshelter (v. t.) To shelter.
Unhive :: Unhive (v. t. v. t.) To deprive of habitation or shelter, as a crowd..
Shade :: Shade (n.) That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade..
Lithodomus :: Lithodomus (n.) A genus of elongated bivalve shells, allied to the mussels, and remarkable for their ability to bore holes for shelter, in solid limestone, shells, etc. Called also Lithophagus..
Bower :: Bower (n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess..
Hovel :: Hovel (v. t.) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
Refuge :: Refuge (n.) Shelter or protection from danger or distress.
Lee :: Lee (n.) A sheltered place; esp., a place protected from the wind by some object; the side sheltered from the wind; shelter; protection; as, the lee of a mountain, an island, or a ship..
Shelter :: Shelter (n.) The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.
Hothouse :: Hothouse (n.) A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened..
Scug :: Scug (n.) A place of shelter; the declivity of a hill.
Shroud :: Shroud (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
House :: House (n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind; but especially, a building or edifice for the habitation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion..
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