(shrīn) noun
1. A receptacle for sacred relics.
2. A place, as a tomb or a chapel, sacred to some holy personage, or considered as sanctified by the remains or presence of such.
3. A thing or spot made sacred by historic or other association.
—v.t. shrined, shrin·ing To enshrine. [OE scrīn <L scrinium case, chest]

(shrīn) noun
A secret fraternal order said to have been founded in Mecca, A.D. 646, and established in the United States in 1872: officially called Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine.