Definition of shade

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

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Black :: Black (n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races..
Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from.
Fresco :: Fresco (a.) A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade..
Longicornia :: Longicornia (n. pl.) A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust..
Dwale :: Dwale (a.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa Belladonna), having stupefying qualities..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A small degree; a shade.
Tomato :: Tomato (n.) The fruit of a plant of the Nightshade family (Lycopersicum esculentun); also, the plant itself. The fruit, which is called also love apple, is usually of a rounded, flattened form, but often irregular in shape. It is of a bright red or yellow color, and is eaten either cooked or uncooked..
Solanum :: Solanum (n.) A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade..
Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To pain in obscure colors; to darken.
Violet-tip :: Violet-tip (n.) A very handsome American butterfly (Polygonia interrogationis). Its wings are mottled with various shades of red and brown and have violet tips.
Gloom :: Gloom (n.) Partial or total darkness; thick shade; obscurity; as, the gloom of a forest, or of midnight..
Magenta :: Magenta (n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc..
Belladonna :: Belladonna (n.) An herbaceous European plant (Atropa belladonna) with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade..
Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes..
Spright :: Spright (n.) A supernatural being; a spirit; a shade; an apparition; a ghost.
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..
Light :: Light (superl) White or whitish; not intense or very marked; not of a deep shade; moderately colored; as, a light color; a light brown; a light complexion..
Cankerworm :: Cankerworm (n.) The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvae are also called cankerworms..
Hades :: Hades (n.) The nether world (according to classical mythology, the abode of the shades, ruled over by Hades or Pluto); the invisible world; the grave..
Tone :: Tone (v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment..
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