SHED

A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed. The first Aletes born in lowly shed. Fairfax. Sheds of reeds which summer's heat repel. Sandys.

To separate; to divide. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.] Robert of Brunne.

To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain. Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood Shak. Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head. Wordsworth.

To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.

To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.

To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover. [R.] "Her hair . . . is shed with gray." B. Jonson.

To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.

To fall in drops; to pour. [Obs.] Such a rain down from the welkin shadde. Chaucer.

To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope. White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand. Mortimer.

A parting; a separation; a division. [Obs. or Prov.Eng.] They say also that the manner of making the shed of newwedded wives' hair with the iron head of a javelin came up then likewise. Sir T. North.

The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.

That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.

The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.