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ds the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species. [Written also chad.]

See Shadbird (a)

A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.

or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad.

Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein. Raymond.

obs. imp. of Shed. Chaucer.

A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.

Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. The shades of night were falling fast. Longfellow.

Full of shade; shady.

Being without shade; not shaded.

One who, or that which, shades.

In a shady manner.

, n. Quality or state of being shady.

Act or process of making a shade.

A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation.

Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1.

The quality or state of being shadowy.

Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading. Feltham.

Shadowy; vague. [Obs.] Hooker.

Having no shadow.