- To be a shelter for; to provide with a shelter; to cover from injury or annoyance; to shield; to protect.Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.You have no convents . . . in which such persons may be received and sheltered.
- To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.In vain I strove to cheek my growing flame, Or shelter passion under friendship's name.
- To betake to cover, or to a safe place; -- used reflexively.They sheltered themselves under a rock.
