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rties are largely due to the alkaloid atropine which it contains. Called also deadly nightshade.

To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure. [Archaic] The clouds benight the sky. Garth.

n said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides Gen. xix. 12. To all beside, as much an empty shade, An Eugene living, as a Cæsar dead. Pope.

ise; to quiver; to be tremulous, like flame. They [streamlets] bickered through the sunny shade. Thomson.

of your souls. 1 Pet. ii. 25. It is a fact now generally recognized by theologians of all shades of opinion, that in the language of the New Testament the same officer in the church is called indifferently "bishop" ( J. B. Lightfoot.

A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara.

A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

To mingle; to mix; to unite intimately; to pass or shade insensibly into each other, as colors. There is a tone of solemn and sacred feeling that blends with our conviviality. Irving.

The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingle together while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.

A very fragrant tea rose with petals of various shades of pink.

A projecting bonnet or shade to protect the complexion; also, a wide-brimmed hat. [Obs.]

A dark shade of green, like that of bottle glass. -- Bot"tle-green`, a.

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.

Furnished with branches; shooting our branches; extending in a branch or branches. Shaded with branching palm. Milton.

racterized by, or having, breezes; airy. "A breezy day in May." Coleridge. 'Mid lawns and shades by breezy rivulets fanned. Wordsworth.

comprehensive views of Christian doctrine and fellowship. Side by side with these various shades of High and Low Church, another party of a different character has always existed in the Church of England. It is called by different names: Moderate, Catholic, or Broad Church, by its friends; Latitudinarian or Indifferent…

Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow. Cheeks brown as the oak leaves. Longfellow. Brown Bess, the old regulation flintlock smoothbore musket, with bronzed barrel, formerly used in the British army. -- Brown bread (a) Dark colored bread; esp. a kind made of unbolted wheat flour, sometimes…

shea butter. Butter and eggs (Bot.), a name given to several plants having flowers of two shades of yellow, as Narcissus incomparabilis, and in the United States to the toadflax (Linaria vulgaris). -- Butter boat, a small vessel for holding melted butter at table. -- Butter flower, the buttercup, a yellow flower. --…

Painting in shades of one color; monochrome. Mollett.

The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvæ are also called cankerworms.