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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Shelter \Shel"ter\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sheltered}; p. pr &
vb n. {Sheltering}.]
1. 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.
--Dryden.
You have no convents . . . in which such persons may
be received and sheltered. --Southey.
2. To screen or cover from notice; to disguise.
In vain I strove to cheek my growing flame, Or
shelter passion under friendship's name --Prior.
3. To betake to cover, or to a safe place -- used
reflexively.
They sheltered themselves under a rock. --Abp.
Abbot.
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