Definition of shade

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

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Tincture :: Tincture (n.) A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
Blending :: Blending (n.) The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly..
Nightly :: Nightly (a.) Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils..
Greenwood :: Greenwood (a.) Pertaining to a greenwood; as, a greenwood shade..
Camaieu :: Camaieu (n.) Painting in shades of one color; monochrome.
Vauquelinite :: Vauquelinite (n.) Chromate of copper and lead, of various shades of green..
Spright :: Spright (n.) A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.
Cherry :: Cherry (n.) A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry..
Hard :: Hard (superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and 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).
Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To pain in obscure colors; to darken.
Graduate :: Graduate (v. i.) To pass by degrees; to change gradually; to shade off; as, sandstone which graduates into gneiss; carnelian sometimes graduates into quartz..
Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes..
Shade :: Shade (n.) Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink..
Positive :: Positive (a.) Corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture..
Obscure :: Obscure (superl.) Covered over, shaded, or darkened; destitute of light; imperfectly illuminated; dusky; dim..
Cast :: Cast (n.) A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade.
Death's-herb :: Death's-herb (n.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).
Tone :: Tone (n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone..
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