A plant; chard. [Obs.] Dryden.
A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail. Shak. The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board. E. Arnold.
The hard wing case of a beetle. They are his shards, and he their beetle. Shak.
A gap in a fence. [Obs.] Stanyhurst.
A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] Spenser.
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