Shaded

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shade \Shade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shaded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Shading}.]
     1. To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to
        keep off illumination from. --Milton.
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              I went to crop the sylvan scenes,
              And shade our altars with their leafy greens.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen;
        to hide; as, to shade one's eyes.
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              Ere in our own house I do shade my head. --Shak.
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     3. To obscure; to dim the brightness of.
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              Thou shad'st
              The full blaze of thy beams.          --Milton.
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     4. To pain in obscure colors; to darken.
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     5. To mark with gradations of light or color.
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     6. To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to
        represent. [Obs.]
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              [The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade
              That part of Justice which is Equity. --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  shaded
       adj 1: protected from heat and light with shade or shadow; "shaded
              avenues"; "o'er the shaded billows rushed the night"-
              Alexander Pope [ant: {unshaded}]
       2: (of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or
          gradations of shadow; "the shaded areas of the face seemed
          to recede" [ant: {unshaded}]