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The menhaden; -- called also poghaden.

The part of a picture where the shade imperceptibly blends with the light.

Light blue; grayish blue; -- a term applied to different shades at different periods. -- n.

One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which fire flowed instead of water.

(Tempering) A color, brown shaded with purple, coming between dark brown and light blue in the table of colors in drawing the temper of hardened steel.

Any abyss; especially, the grave, or hades. Back to the infernal pit I drag thee chained. Milton. He keepth back his soul from the pit. Job xxxiii. 18.

The menhaden.

Corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture.

ce these theories and methods of the post- impressionists change with great rapidity and shade into one another, so that a picture may be both cubist and futurist in character. They tend to, and sometimes reach, a condition in which both representation and traditional decoration are entirely abolished and a work of art…

A plant (Solanum tuberosum) of the Nightshade family, and its esculent farinaceous tuber, of which there are numerous varieties used for food. It is native of South America, but a form of the species is found native as far north as New Mexico.

t the weaker seek. Milton. O death, made proud with pure and princely beauty ! Shak. And shades impervious to the proud world's glare. Keble.

Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade. Yon gray is not the morning's eye, 'Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia's brow. Shak. On the depths of death there swims The reflex of a human face. Tennyson.

resort; ass, to repair to sanctuary for safety. Chaucer. Go, mount the winds, and to the shades repair. Pope.

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

e 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.

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

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

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).

n sardines of the Atlantic coast are mostly the young of the common herring and of the menhaden.

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