Shrine
- v. t. To enshrine; to place reverently, as in a shrine.
- n. A case, box, or receptacle, especially one in which are deposited sacred relics, as the bones of a saint.
- n. Any sacred place, as an altar, tromb, or the like.
- n. A place or object hallowed from its history or associations; as, a shrine of art.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.