figurative. To draw out or expel (temptations); to withdraw or shelter (oneself); to divert or deflect towards another. (Cf. wrenk, v. 2) Obsolete.

To shield, protect, shelter. Also figurative.

figurative (transitive) To keep safe, shelter, harbour.

transitive (in passive). To be sheltered. Obsolete.

transitive. To shade, shelter, screen, protect.

transitive. To shelter.

figurative.

transitive. To shelter, enclose, seclude as in a bower; also absol.

To shelter within or behind a fortification; also transferred and figurative. Obsolete.

transitive. To fortify, entrench; in later use, to shelter, protect. to sconce away Scottish, to ward off.

transitive. To shelter or protect (someone or something) from wind, the sun, projectiles, etc., with a screen or other obstruction.

transitive. To protect, to shelter.

To shelter.

transferred. To enclose, conceal, shelter, in the ‘bosom’. Often passive to be enclosed, enveloped in, closely surrounded with (woods, foliage…