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Shade :: Shade (n.) 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.

Roe :: Roe (n.) A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany..

Mall :: Mall (n.) A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.

Benight :: Benight (v. t.) To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

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..

Brown :: Brown (superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow..

Cherry :: Cherry (n.) A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry..

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..

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..

Parasol :: Parasol (v. t.) To shade as with a parasol.

Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker to a lighter shade, as in painting or drawing..

Demitint :: Demitint (n.) The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.

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 (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..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.

Density :: Density (n.) Depth of shade.

Umbraculiform :: Umbraculiform (a.) Having the form of anything that serves to shade, as a tree top, an umbrella, and the like; specifically (Bot.), having the form of an umbrella; umbrella-shaped..

Inumbrate :: Inumbrate (v. t.) To shade; to darken.

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..

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