Definition of screen

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Screen (v. t.) To provide with a shelter or means of concealment; to separate or cut off from inconvenience, injury, or danger; to shelter; to protect; to protect by hiding; to conceal; as, fruits screened from cold winds by a forest or hill..

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Stalk :: Stalk (v. t.) To approach under cover of a screen, or by stealth, for the purpose of killing, as game..
Shelter :: Shelter (n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.
Pavise :: Pavise (n.) A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it..
Screen :: Screen (n.) Anything that separates or cuts off inconvenience, injury, or danger; that which shelters or conceals from view; a shield or protection; as, a fire screen..
Bopeep :: Bopeep (n.) The act of looking out suddenly, as from behind a screen, so as to startle some one (as by children in play), or of looking out and drawing suddenly back, as if frightened..
Spectrum :: Spectrum (n.) The several colored and other rays of which light is composed, separated by the refraction of a prism or other means, and observed or studied either as spread out on a screen, by direct vision, by photography, or otherwise. See Illust. of Light, and Spectroscope..
Cover :: Cover (n.) Anything which veils or conceals; a screen; disguise; a cloak.
Kage :: Kage (n.) A chantry chapel inclosed with lattice or screen work.
Pavesade :: Pavesade (n.) A canvas screen, formerly sometimes extended along the side of a vessel in a naval engagement, to conceal from the enemy the operations on board..
Strain :: Strain (a.) To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to strain milk through cloth..
Reredos :: Reredos (n.) A screen or partition wall behind an altar.
Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard..
Jube :: Jube (n.) chancel screen or rood screen.
Skreen :: Skreen (n. & v.) See Screen.
Cribble :: Cribble (n.) A coarse sieve or screen.
Fight :: Fight (v. i.) A screen for the combatants in ships.
Screenings :: Screenings (n. pl.) The refuse left after screening sand, coal, ashes, etc..
Fender :: Fender (v. t. & i.) A screen to prevent coals or sparks of an open fire from escaping to the floor.
Covered :: Covered (a.) Under cover; screened; sheltered; not exposed; hidden.
Hoarding :: Hoarding (n.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
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