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Caused by boscage. Darkened over by long bosky shadows. H. James.

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

place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.

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…

The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.

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. --…

next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me. By foundation or by shady rivulet He sought them both. Milton.

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.

rnamental armor (with or without a vizor) for the head and neck; a helmet. His casque overshadowed with brilliant plumes. Prescott.

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

ignification; as, "To take arms against a sea of troubles. " Shak. "Her voice was but the shadow of a sound." Young.

See Shad. [Obs.]

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