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nce; a protection; a screen. The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. Pope.

Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.

Affording shelter. [R.]

To shelter. [Obs.]

nt at its commission. -- Accessary after the fact, one who, after an offense, assists or shelters the offender, not being present at the commission of the offense.

A sanctuary or place of refuge and protection, where criminals and debtors found shelter, and from which they could not be forcibly taken without sacrilege. So sacred was the church to some, that it had the right of an asylum or sanctuary. Ayliffe.

A rooflike cover, usually of canvas, extended over or before any place as a shelter from the sun, rain, or wind.

me additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

A place of shelter for cattle. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

arries about a bag or basket-like case of silk and twigs, which it afterwards hangs up to shelter the pupa and wingless adult females.

A place of shelter; protection; refuge. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.] [Also written bield and beeld.] The random beild o' clod or stane. Burns.

A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin.

To cover with a screen, or as with a screen; to shelter; to conceal. Shak.

A shelter. Same as Beild. [Scot.]

Intense, direct light accompanied with heat; as, to seek shelter from the blaze of the sun. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon! Milton.

A house for sheltering boats. Half the latticed boathouse hides. Wordsworth.

on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers. [Obs.] [Written also boley, bolye, bouillie.] Spenser.

Characterized by recesses or sheltered hollows.

A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

A boxlike shed for shelter; as, a sentry box.