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y or place at rest; to quiet. Your piety has paid All needful rites, to rest my wandering shade. Dryden.

se of pleasure, and spared no cost to make a delicious retreat. L'Estrange. That pleasing shade they sought, a soft retreat From sudden April showers, a shelter from the heat. Dryden.

ed positive or negative (Photog.), a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney.

A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them. Milton.

A mottled appearance of light and shade in wood, especially in mahogany.

To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black. Sabled all in black the shady sky. G. Fletcher.

a South African tree (Elæodendron croceum); also, the tree itself. -- Saffron yellow, a shade of yellow like that obtained from the stigmas of the true saffron (Crocus sativus).

A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of many tints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.

landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery. A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, Shades on the sides, and in the midst a lawn. Dryden.

Shade; shadow. [Obs.]

The art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature. Gwilt.

A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat. [Written also scimachy.] Cowley.

Divination by means of shadows.

g the sensitiveness of plates, films, etc., as a screen divided into squares of different shades or colors, from which a picture is made on the plate to be tested.

torminalis of Europe, the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the American shad bush (see Shad bush, under Shad). They have clusters of small, edible, applelike berries. Service berry (Bot.), the fruit of any kind of service tree. In British America the name is especially applied to that of the several s…

Having vague outlines, and colors and shades so mingled as to give a misty appearance; -- said of a painting.

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.

en. The sick and weak the healing plant shall aid, From storms a shelter, and from heat a shade. Pope.

to sprout. Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth. Bacon. But the wild olive shoots, and shades the ungrateful plain. Dryden.