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Act or process of making a shade.

The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage. J. S. Dwight.

Shading, like a bower; full of bowers. A bowery maze that shades the purple streams. Trumbull.

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

In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that cross one another at an angle.

A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.

A mode of execution in engraving, drawing, and miniature painting, in which shading is produced by lines crossing each other at angles more or less acute; -- called also crosshatching.

A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading. Painters, by their outlines, colors, lights, and shadows, represent the same in their pictures. Dryden.

entury, in which a thick opaque color is applied without background and with scarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc., in imitation of Oriental work. Hence: Poonah brush, paper, painter, etc.

The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure.

A soft crayon for use in stump drawing or in shading with the stump.

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

ser. -- Sops of wine (Bot.), an old European variety of apple, of a yellow and red color, shading to deep red; -- called also sopsavine, and red shropsavine.

t, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder.