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A long, narrow piece cut or torn off; a strip. "Shreds of tanned leather." Bacon.

The fieldfare; -- so called from its harsh cry before rain. [Prov. Eng.]

The act of cutting or tearing into shreds.

Consisting of shreds.

Having no shreds; without a shred. And those which waved are shredless dust ere now. Byron.

To cut into shreads or pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. Dunglison.

o dress or adorn tawdrily or with false taste. Remnants of tapestried hangings, . . . and shreds of pictures with which he had bedizened his tatters. Sir W. Scott.

tened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes. Cut cavendish, the plugs cut into long shreds for smoking.

A receptacle for rags or shreds.

A loose end; a dangling shred. Daglocks, clotted locks hanging in dags or jags at a sheep's tail. Wedgwood.

thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.

A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.

A detached mass of loosely fibrous structure like a shredded tuft of wool.

To rub; to wear off, or wear into shreds, by rubbing; to fret, as cloth; as, a deer is said to fray her head.

A fragment; a shred; a small piece. And cut whole giants into fritters. Hudibras. Corn fritter. See under Corn.

A place into which a tailor throws his shreds, or a printer his broken type. Hudibras. Gates of hell. (Script.) See Gate, n., 4.

A kind of soup containing thin slices or shreds of carrots, onions, etc.

Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins. Simmonds.

ece or knot of wool separated from the longer staple by combing; also, a similar piece or shred of waste silk.