Word Meanings - SHELTERLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.

SHELTERLESS
Destitute of shelter or protection. Now sad and shelterless perhaps she lies. Rowe.
SHELTERY
Affording shelter.
PROTECTIONIST
One who favors protection. See Protection, 4.
SHELTER
scheldtrome, a guard, squadron, AS. scildtruma a troop of men with 1. That which covers or defends from injury or annoyance; a protection; a screen. The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. Pope.
DESTITUTENESS
Destitution. Ash.
PERHAPS
By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be. And pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. Acts viii. 22.
DESTITUTE
1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. Burke.
PROTECTIONISM
The doctrine or policy of protectionists. See Protection, 4.
DESTITUTELY
In destitution.
PROTECTION
A theory, or a policy, of protecting the producers in a country from foreign competition in the home market by the imposition of such discriminating duties on goods of foreign production as will restrict or prevent their importation; -- opposed
ENSHELTER
To shelter.