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Definition of shad

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Shad (n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends 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..

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Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim..

Shadiness :: Shadiness (n.) Quality or state of being shady.

Stellionate :: Stellion (n.) A lizard (Stellio vulgaris), common about the Eastern Mediterranean among ruins. In color it is olive-green, shaded with black, with small stellate spots. Called also hardim, and star lizard..

Bowery :: Bowery (a.) Shading, like a bower; full of bowers..

Longicornia :: Longicornia (n. pl.) A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennae are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust..

Outline :: Outline (n.) A sketch composed of such lines; the delineation of a figure without shading.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.

Foreshadow :: Foreshadow (v. t.) To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) A faint representation; an adumbration.

Brown :: Brown (superl.) Of a dark color, of various shades between black and red or yellow..

Shading :: Shading (n.) Act or process of making a shade.

Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.

Hatching :: Hatching (n.) 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..

Chad :: Chad (n.) See Shad.

Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage..

Nuance :: Nuance (n.) A shade of difference; a delicate gradation.

Anadromous :: Anadromous (a.) Ascending rivers from the sea, at certain seasons, for breeding, as the salmon, shad, etc..

Positive :: Positive (n.) A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type..