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Coverture :: Coverture (n.) Covering; shelter; defense; hiding.

Roof :: Roof (v. t.) To inclose in a house; figuratively, to shelter..

Bescreen :: Bescreen (v. t.) To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal..

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..

Screen :: Screen (n.) Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen..

Haven :: Haven (v. t.) To shelter, as in a haven..

Testudo :: Testudo (n.) A cover or screen which a body of troops formed with their shields or targets, by holding them over their heads when standing close to each other. This cover resembled the back of a tortoise, and served to shelter the men from darts, stones, and other missiles. A similar defense was sometimes formed of boards, and moved on wheels..

Imbosom :: Imbosom (v. t.) To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove..

Unharbor :: Unharbor (v. t.) To drive from harbor or shelter.

Mew :: Mew (n.) A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural..

Woodhouse :: Woodhouse (n.) A house or shed in which wood is stored, and sheltered from the weather..

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..

Mansion :: Mansion (n.) A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter..

Unhoused :: Unhoused (a.) Not provided with a house or shelter; houseless; homeless.

Neathouse :: Neathouse (n.) A building for the shelter of neat cattle.

Burrow :: Burrow (n.) A shelter; esp. a hole in the ground made by certain animals, as rabbits, for shelter and habitation..

Banyan :: Banyan (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men..

Harbrough :: Harbrough () A shelter.

Quartter :: Quartter (v. t.) To furnish with shelter or entertainment; to supply with the means of living for a time; especially, to furnish shelter to; as, to quarter soldiers..

Cot :: Cot (n.) A pen, coop, or like shelter for small domestic animals, as for sheep or pigeons; a cote..

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