the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > embrace or keeping (2)
transferred and figurative. Applied (as a Biblical Hebraism: see, e.g. Psalms xxxiii. 20, lxxxiv. 11) to a personal defender or protector (esp. to…
transferred and figurative. In biblical and derived expressions referring to a mother bird's use of her wings for the protection of her young (cf…