Definition of shade

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Shade (n.) Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural.

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Shadeful :: Shadeful (a.) Full of shade; shady.
Darksome :: Darksome (a.) Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.
Shade :: Shade (n.) 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..
Greenwood :: Greenwood (a.) Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade..
Umbrageous :: Umbrageous (a.) Not easily perceived, as if from being darkened or shaded; obscure..
Hue :: Hue (n.) Color or shade of color; tint; dye.
Lithophane :: Lithophane (n.) Porcelain impressed with figures which are made distinct by transmitted light, -- as when hung in a window, or used as a lamp shade..
Tropaeolin :: Tropaeolin (n.) A name given to any one of a series of orange-red dyestuffs produced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid derivatives of azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so called because of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium (Tropaeolum).
Scarlet :: Scarlet (n.) A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
Orgyia :: Orgyia (n.) A genus of bombycid moths whose caterpillars (esp. those of Orgyia leucostigma) are often very injurious to fruit trees and shade trees. The female is wingless. Called also vaporer moth.
Henbane :: Henbane (n.) A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus..
Light :: Light (n.) The manner in which the light strikes upon a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; -- opposed to shade. Cf. Chiaroscuro.
Hyoscyamus :: Hyoscyamus (n.) A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.
Vallancy :: Vallancy (n.) A large wig that shades the face.
Tarsiatura :: Tarsiatura (n.) A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood..
Blending :: Blending (n.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly..
Spright :: Spright (n.) A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.
Reflex :: Reflex (n.) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.
Solanum :: Solanum (n.) A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade..
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