*shad*

v. t. To double the natural darkness of (a place). Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cosmetic powder or cream of a dark tint, applied on the eyelids or just under the eyebrows to accentuate the eyes. Compare eyeliner. [ PJC ]

v. t. To shadow or typi&unr_;y beforehand; to prefigure. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Marked with different shades. W. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a protective ornamental covering used to screen the light bulb in a lamp from direct view. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A small silvery fish (Decapterus macarellus) found from Nova Scotia to Brazil. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ AS. nichtscadu. ] (Bot.) A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. [ 1913 Webster ]

Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna (a). --
Enchanter's nightshade. See under Enchanter. --
Stinking nightshade. See Henbane. --
Three-leaved nightshade. See Trillium. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. ofersceadwian. See Over, and Shade, and cf. Overshadow. ] To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Overshadowed p. pr. & vb. n. Overshadowing. ] [ Cf. Overshade. ] 1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. [ 1913 Webster ]

There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence; to be viewed as more important than. Milton. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. To cause to be sad or disappointing; to cast a sad shadow on; as, an accidental death overshadowed the joy of the festival. [ PJC ]

n. One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Overshadowing. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. [ AS. sceadda a kind of fish, akin to Prov. G. schade; cf. Ir. & Gael. sgadan a herring, W. ysgadan herrings; all perhaps akin to E. skate a fish. ] (Zool.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Alosa sapidissima formerly Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (Alosa alosa formerly Clupea alosa), and the twaite shad (Alosa finta formerly Clupea finta), are less important species. [ Written also chad. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is loosely applied, also, to several other fishes, as the gizzard shad (see under Gizzard), called also mud shad, white-eyed shad, and winter shad. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hardboaded shad, or
Yellow-tailed shad, the menhaden. --
Hickory shad, or
Tailor shad, the mattowacca. --
Long-boned shad, one of several species of important food fishes of the Bermudas and the West Indies, of the genus Gerres. --
Shad bush (Bot.), a name given to the North American shrubs or small trees of the rosaceous genus Amelanchier (Amelanchier Canadensis, and Amelanchier alnifolia). Their white racemose blossoms open in April or May, when the shad appear, and the edible berries (pomes) ripen in June or July, whence they are called Juneberries. The plant is also called service tree, and Juneberry. --
Shad frog, an American spotted frog (Rana halecina); -- so called because it usually appears at the time when the shad begin to run in the rivers. --
Trout shad, the squeteague. --
White shad, the common shad. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad. (b) The common European sandpiper. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining.) Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. imp. of Shed. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. shade, shadewe, schadewe, AS. sceadu, scead; akin to OS. skado, D. schaduw, OHG. scato, (gen. scatewes), G. schatten, Goth. skadus, Ir. & Gael. sgath, and probably to Gr. sko`tos darkness. √162. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shades of night were falling fast. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there
Weep our sad bosoms empty. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. Ps. cxxi. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sleep under a fresh tree's shade. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let the arched knife well sharpened now assail the spreading shades of vegetables. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Shadow. [ Poetic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Swift as thought the flitting shade
Thro' air his momentary journey made. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Painting, Drawing, etc.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink. [ 1913 Webster ]

White, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees, or shades and mixtures, as green only in by the eyes. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms. [ 1913 Webster ]

New shades and combinations of thought. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every shade of religious and political opinion has its own headquarters. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Shades, the Nether World; the supposed abode of souls after leaving the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

I went to crop the sylvan scenes,
And shade our altars with their leafy greens. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ere in our own house I do shade my head. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To obscure; to dim the brightness of. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou shad'st
The full blaze of thy beams. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To pain in obscure colors; to darken. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To mark with gradations of light or color. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

[ The goddess ] in her person cunningly did shade
That part of Justice which is Equity. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ See Shade, n. ] To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off.

This small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades. Edmund Gurney. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Full of shade; shady. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Being without shade; not shaded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, shades. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a shady manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality or state of being shady. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act or process of making a shade. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Ar. shādūf. ] A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Originally the same word as shade. √162. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Darkness; shade; obscurity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise. Denham. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A shaded place; shelter; protection; security. [ 1913 Webster ]

In secret shadow from the sunny ray,
On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sin and her shadow Death. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. “Hence, horrible shadow!” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type. [ 1913 Webster ]

The law having a shadow of good things to come. Heb. x. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Types ] and shadows of that destined seed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A small degree; a shade. “No variableness, neither shadow of turning.” James i. 17. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. [ A Latinism ] Nares. [ 1913 Webster ]

I must not have my board pastered with shadows
That under other men's protection break in
Without invitement. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shadow of death, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death. Ps. xxiii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Shadowed p. pr. & vb. n. Shadowing. ] [ OE. shadowen, AS. sceadwian. See adow, n. ] 1. To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The warlike elf much wondered at this tree,
So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To conceal; to hide; to screen. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Let every soldier hew him down a bough.
And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow
The numbers of our host. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shadowing their right under your wings of war. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. [ 1913 Webster ]

Augustus is shadowed in the person of Æneas. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why sad?
I must not see the face O love thus shadowed. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being shadowy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A faint representation; an adumbration. [ 1913 Webster ]

There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. Tylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Shadowy; vague. [ Obs. ] Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no shadow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. “Shadowy verdure.” Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]

This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. “The shadowy past.” Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. [ 1913 Webster ]

The moon . . . with more pleasing light,
Shadowy sets off the face things. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Faintly representative; hence, typical. [ 1913 Webster ]

From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy
and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Metal.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.) [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Shadbird (a) [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Shadier superl. Shadiest. ] 1. Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. [ 1913 Webster ]

The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. [ 1913 Webster ]

And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Sheltered from the glare of light or sultry heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or known; of questionable character; unsavory; equivocal; dubious, corrupt, or criminal; as, a shady character; -- of people or activities. [ Colloq. ] “A shady business.” London Sat. Rev.

Shady characters, disreputable, criminal. London Spectator. [ 1913 Webster ]

On the shady side of, on the thither side of; as, on the shady side of fifty; that is, more than fifty. [ Colloq. ] --
To keep shady, to stay in concealment; also, to be reticent. [ Slang ] [ 1913 Webster ]