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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.

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

omprehensive 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…

The menhaden. [U.S.]

hea 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.

A rich red or crimson color with a shade of purple.

A map showing geographically, by shades or curves, statistics of various kinds; a statistical map.

A tendency to any color; a tinge; a shade. Gray with a cast of green. Woodward.

ith alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton.

A peculiar shade of red, like that of a cherry. Barbadoes cherry. See under Barbadoes. -- Cherry bird (Zoöl.), an American bird; the cedar bird; -- so called from its fondness for cherries. -- Cherry bounce, cherry brandy and sugar. -- Cherry brandy, brandy in which cherries have been steeped. -- Cherry laurel (Bot…

A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.

lly followed by with. Silence! coeval with eternity! Pope. Oaks coeval spread a mournful shade. Cowper.

Shade or variety of character; kind; species. Boys and women are for the most part cattle of this color. Shak.

Proportionate mixture or combination. "Contemperation of light and shade." Boyle.

An encounter. [Obs.] With kindly counter under mimic shade. Spenser.