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.

The state of being covered and protected; protection; security, Who into shelter takes their tender bloom. Young.

He that defends or guards from danger.

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.

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?

To betake to cover or a safe place. They sheltered themselves under a rock. Abbot.

To cover from notice; to disguise for protection. In vain I strove to check my growing flame, Or shelter passion under friendship’s name.

To take shelter. There the Indian herdsman shunning heat, Shelters in cool. Milton.