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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.

with 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.

ally 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.

. The lover with the myrtle sprays Adorns his crisped tresses. Drayton. Along the crisped shades and bowers. Milton. The crisped brooks, Rolling on orient pearl and sands of gold. Milton.

To shade by means of crosshatching.

uash, and melon vines. (b) The squash beetle. -- Cucumber tree.(a) A large ornamental or shade tree of the genus Magnolia (M. acuminata), so called from a slight resemblance of its young fruit to a small cucumber. (b) An East Indian plant (Averrhoa Bilimbi) which produces the fruit known as bilimbi. -- Jamaica cucumb…

warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster Shak. Loopholes cut through thickest shade. Milton.

A sight covering; a scarf. See Simar. Her body shaded with a light cymar. Dryden.

Marked with spots of different shades of color; spotted; variegated; as, a dapple horse. Some dapple mists still floated along the peaks. Sir W. Scott.

not receiving, reflecting, or radiating light; wholly or partially black, or of some deep shade of color; not light-colored; as, a dark room; a dark day; dark cloth; dark paint; a dark complexion. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverable dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! milton. In the dark…

Dark; gloomy; obscure; shaded; cheerless. [Poetic] He brought him through a darksome narrow pass To a broad gate, all built of beaten gold. Spenser.

ject to death; mortal. [Obs.] The image of a deadly man. Wyclif (Rom. i. 23). Deadly nightshade (Bot.), a poisonous plant; belladonna. See under Nightshade.

The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior.