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Hyemation :: Hyemation (n.) The act of affording shelter in winter.

Greenhouse :: Greenhouse (n.) A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.

Housing :: Housing (n.) The act of putting or receiving under shelter; the state of dwelling in a habitation.

Cover :: Cover (v. t.) To shelter, as from evil or danger; to protect; to defend; as, the cavalry covered the retreat..

Shelter :: Shelter (n.) That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen.

Shelter :: Shelter (v. i.) To take shelter.

Tent :: Tent (n.) A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, -- used for sheltering persons from the weather, especially soldiers in camp..

Wicket :: Wicket (n.) A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc..

Housing :: Housing (n.) That which shelters or covers; houses, taken collectively..

Hothouse :: Hothouse (n.) A house kept warm to shelter tender plants and shrubs from the cold air; a place in which the plants of warmer climates may be reared, and fruits ripened..

Levesel :: Levesel (n.) A leafy shelter; a place covered with foliage.

Unhoused :: Unhoused (a.) Driven from a house; deprived of shelter.

Quarter :: Quarter (v. t.) Place of lodging or temporary residence; shelter; entertainment; -- usually in the plural.

Hovel :: Hovel (v. t.) To put in a hovel; to shelter.

But :: But (v. t.) The hut or shelter of the person who attends to the targets in rifle practice.

Imbosom :: Imbosom (v. t.) To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove..

Shroud :: Shroud (n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.

Booly :: Booly (n.) A company of Irish herdsmen, or a single herdsman, wandering from place to place with flocks and herds, and living on their milk, like the Tartars; also, a place in the mountain pastures inclosed for the shelter of cattle or their keepers..

Haven :: Haven (n.) A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; a port..

Gabion :: Gabion (n.) A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire..

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