Shade
(Shade) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shaded; p. pr. & vb. n. Shading.]
1. To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. Milton.
I went to crop the sylvan scenes,
And shade our altars with their leafy greens.
Dryden. 2. To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes.
Ere in our own house I do shade my head.
Shak. 3. To obscure; to dim the brightness of.
Thou shad'st
The full blaze of thy beams.
Milton. 4. To pain in obscure colors; to darken.
5. To mark with gradations of light or color.
6. To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. [Obs.]
[The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade
That part of Justice which is Equity.
Spenser. Shadeful
(Shade"ful) a. Full of shade; shady.
Shadeless
(Shade"less), a. Being without shade; not shaded.
Shader
(Shad"er) n. One who, or that which, shades.
Shadily
(Shad"i*ly) adv. In a shady manner.
Shadiness
(Shad"i*ness), n. Quality or state of being shady.
Shading
(Shad"ing), n.
1. Act or process of making a shade.
2. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection,
etc., in a picture or a drawing.
Shadoof
(||Sha*doof") n. [Ar. shaduf.] A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising
water from the Nile for irrigation.
Shadow
(Shad"ow) n. [Originally the same word as shade. &radic162. See Shade.]
1. Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing
the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower.
See the Note under Shade, n., 1.
