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Accord :: Accord (v. t.) Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting..

Camaieu :: Camaieu (n.) Painting in shades of one color; monochrome.

Crossnath :: Crossnath (v. t.) To shade by means of crosshatching.

Alabaster :: Alabaster (n.) A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster..

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

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

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.

Darksome :: Darksome (a.) Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless.

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

Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To pain in obscure colors; to darken.

Bongrace :: Bongrace (n.) A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat..

Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage..

Hyoscyamus :: Hyoscyamus (n.) A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.

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

Morelle :: Morelle (n.) Nightshade. See 2d Morel.

Harsh :: Harsh (a.) Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony..

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..

Banewort :: Banewort (n.) Deadly nightshade.

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).

Positive :: Positive (n.) A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative..

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