Definition of shade

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Shade (n.) Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural.

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Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
Eye :: Eye (n.) Tinge; shade of color.
Felonwort :: Felonwort (n.) The bittersweet nightshade (Solanum Dulcamara). See Bittersweet.
Elm :: Elm (n.) A tree of the genus Ulmus, of several species, much used as a shade tree, particularly in America. The English elm is Ulmus campestris; the common American or white elm is U. Americana; the slippery or red elm, U. fulva..
Umbrella :: Umbrella (n.) A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol..
Eclipse :: Eclipse (v. t.) To obscure, darken, or extinguish the beauty, luster, honor, etc., of; to sully; to cloud; to throw into the shade by surpassing..
Harsh :: Harsh (a.) Having violent contrasts of color, or of light and shade; lacking in harmony..
Tincture :: Tincture (n.) A tinge or shade of color; a tint; as, a tincture of red..
Fresco :: Fresco (a.) A cool, refreshing state of the air; duskiness; coolness; shade..
Nightly :: Nightly (a.) Of or pertaining to the night, or to every night; happening or done by night, or every night; as, nightly shades; he kept nightly vigils..
Sunshade :: Sunshade (n.) A small parasol.
Tropaeolin :: Tropaeolin (n.) A name given to any one of a series of orange-red dyestuffs produced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid derivatives of azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so called because of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium (Tropaeolum).
Demitint :: Demitint (n.) The shade itself; neither the darkest nor the lightest in a composition. Also called half tint.
Negative :: Negative (a.) Of or pertaining to a picture upon glass or other material, in which the lights and shades of the original, and the relations of right and left, are reversed..
Shade :: Shade (n.) The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above..
Shadeful :: Shadeful (a.) Full of shade; shady.
Umber :: Umber (v. t.) To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face..
Shade :: Shade (n.) Shadow.
Umbriferous :: Umbriferous (a.) Casting or making a shade; umbrageous.
Hard :: Hard (superl.) Having disagreeable and abrupt contrasts in the coloring or light and shade.
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