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Chiaroscurist :: Chiaroscurist (n.) A painter who cares for and studies light and shade rather than color.

Shade :: Shade (n.) Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink..

Shady :: Shady (superl.) Of or pertaining to shade or darkness; hence, unfit to be seen or known; equivocal; dubious or corrupt..

Tone :: Tone (n.) The general effect of a picture produced by the combination of light and shade, together with color in the case of a painting; -- commonly used in a favorable sense; as, this picture has tone..

Solanum :: Solanum (n.) A genus of plants comprehending the potato (S. tuberosum), the eggplant (S. melongena, and several hundred other species; nightshade..

Shade :: Shade (n.) A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief, expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything which is distinguished from others similar by slight differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms..

Hue :: Hue (n.) A predominant shade in a composition of primary colors; a primary color modified by combination with others.

Sunlight :: Sunless (a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.

Tussock :: Tussock (n.) A caterpillar of any one of numerous species of bombycid moths. The body of these caterpillars is covered with hairs which form long tufts or brushes. Some species are very injurious to shade and fruit trees. Called also tussock caterpillar. See Orgyia.

Density :: Density (n.) Depth of shade.

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..

Death's-herb :: Death's-herb (n.) The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna).

Umbrageous :: Umbrageous (a.) Forming or affording a shade; shady; shaded; as, umbrageous trees or foliage..

Tone :: Tone (v. t.) To bring, as a print, to a certain required shade of color, as by chemical treatment..

Ugly :: Ugly (n.) A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet..

Shade :: Shade (n.) Shadow.

Shaded :: Shaded (imp. & p. p.) of Shad.

Hyoscyamine :: Hyoscyamine (n.) An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc..

Reflex :: Reflex (n.) Reflection; the light reflected from an illuminated surface to one in shade.

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

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