Shadd
(Shadd) n. (Mining.) Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and
indicating a vein. Raymond.
Shadde
(Shad"de) obs. imp. of Shed. Chaucer.
Shaddock
(Shad"dock) n. [Said to be so called from a Captain Shaddock, who first brought this fruit
from the East Indies.] (Bot.) A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; —
called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.
Shade
(Shade) n. [OE. shade, shadewe, schadewe, AS. sceadu, scead; akin to OS. skado, D. schaduw,
OHG. scato, G. schatten, Goth. skadus, Ir. & Gael. sgath, and probably to Gr. sko`tos darkness.
&radic162. Cf. Shadow, Shed a hat.]
1. Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused
by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light.
Shade differs from shadow as it implies no particular form or definite limit; whereas a shadow represents
in form the object which intercepts the light. When we speak of the shade of a tree, we have no reference
to its form; but when we speak of measuring a pyramid or other object by its shadow, we have reference
to its form and extent.
2. Darkness; obscurity; — often in the plural.
The shades of night were falling fast.
Longfellow. 3. An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat.
Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there
Weep our sad bosoms empty.
Shak. 4. That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects
from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade.
The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.
Ps. cxxi. 5.
Sleep under a fresh tree's shade.
Shak.
Let the arched knife well sharpened now assail the spreading shades of vegetables.
J. Philips. 5. Shadow. [Poetic.]
Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue.
Pope. 6. The soul after its separation from the body; — so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to
the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes.
Swift as thought the flitting shade
Thro' air his momentary journey made.
Dryden. 7. (Painting, Drawing, etc.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above.
8. Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink.
White, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees, or shades and mixtures, as green only in by the
eyes.
Locke.
