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Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden.

Formed by trees. [Obs.] From under shady, arborous roof. Milton.

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

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.

A young unmarried woman; a gerl; a maiden. With her train of damsels she was gone, In shady walks the scorching heat to shum. Dryden. Sometimes a troop of damsels glad, . . . Goes by to towered Cameleot. Tennyson.

A place dug; a pit; a ditch; a den; a cave. Which to that shady delve him brought at last The very tigers from their delves Look out. Moore.

ightshade (Bot.), a genus (Circæa) of low inconspicuous, perennial plants, found in damp, shady places.

A cool walk; shady place. [R.] Maunder.

A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .

induce by pleasure or hope; to attract. To inveigle and invite the unwary sense. Milton. Shady groves, that easy sleep invite. Dryden. There no delusive hope invites despair. Cowper.

(Dactylis glomerata), introduced into the United States from Europe. It grows usually in shady places, and is of value for forage and hay. -- Orchard house (Hort.), a glazed structure in which fruit trees are reared in pots. -- Orchard oriole (Zool.), a bright-colored American oriole (Icterus spurius), which frequen…

ly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. Milton.

A small stream or brook; a streamlet. By fountain or by shady rivulet He sought them. Milton.

To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black. Sabled all in black the shady sky. G. Fletcher.

Full of shade; shady.

In a shady manner.

, n. Quality or state of being shady.

To make somber, or dark; to make shady. [R.]

nce of anything left when the thing itself no longer exists; remains; token; vestige. The shady empire shall retain no trace Of war or blood, but in the sylvan chase. Pope.

pl. of Tree. " The shady treen." Fairfax.