(~s, ~ing, ~ed)
1.
A ~ is a covering of silky threads that the larvae of moths and other insects make for themselves before they grow into adults.
N-COUNT
2.
If you are in a ~ of something, you are wrapped up in it or surrounded by it.
He stood there in a ~ of golden light.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
3.
If you are living in a ~, you are in an environment in which you feel protected and safe, and sometimes isolated from everyday life.
You cannot live in a ~ and overlook these facts.
N-COUNT: usu N of n
4.
If something ~s you from something, it protects you or isolates you from it.
There is nowhere to hide when things go wrong, no organisation to ~ you from blame...
The playwright ~ed himself in a world of pretence.
VERB: V n from/in n, V pron-refl in n