shelter

SHEL'TER, noun [Latin celo.]1. That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance. A house is a shelter from rain and other inclemencies of the weather; the foliage of a tree is a shelter from the rays of the sun.The healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. Pope.2. The state of being covered and protected; protection; security.Who into shelter takes their tender bloom. Young.3. He that defends or guards from danger.SHEL'TER, verb transitive 1. To cover from violence, injury, annoyance or attack; as a valley sheltered from the north wind by a mountain.Those ruins shelter'd once his sacred head. Dryden.We besought the deep shelter to us. Milton.2. To defend; to protect from danger; to secure or render safe; to harbor.What endless shall you gain, to save and shelter Troy's unhappy train? Dryden.3. To betake to cover or a safe place.They sheltered themselves under a rock. Abbot.4. To cover from notice; to disguise for protection.In vain I strove to check my growing flame, Or shelter passion under friendship's name. Prior.SHEL'TER, verb intransitive To take shelter There the Indian herdsman shunning heat, Shelters in cool. Milton