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Shed   /ʃɛd/   Listen
verb
Shed  v. t.  (past & past part. shed; pres. part. shedding)  
1.
To separate; to divide. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.)
2.
To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill; as, the sun sheds light; she shed tears; the clouds shed rain. "Did Romeo's hand shed Tybalt's blood?" "Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head."
3.
To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast; as, fowls shed their feathers; serpents shed their skins; trees shed leaves.
4.
To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
5.
To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover. (R.) "Her hair... is shed with gray."
6.
(Weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.


Shed  v. i.  (past & past part. shed; pres. part. shedding)  
1.
To fall in drops; to pour. (Obs.) "Such a rain down from the welkin shadde."
2.
To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope. "White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand."


noun
Shed  n.  
1.
A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure often open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed. "The first Aletes born in lowly shed." "Sheds of reeds which summer's heat repel."
2.
(Aeronautics) A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.


Shed  n.  
1.
A parting; a separation; a division. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "They say also that the manner of making the shed of newwedded wives' hair with the iron head of a javelin came up then likewise."
2.
The act of shedding or spilling; used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
3.
That which parts, divides, or sheds; used in composition, as in watershed.
4.
(Weaving) The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.





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"Shed" Quotes from Famous Books



... dead; if, in a country where castes no longer exist and aristocracy has no legal status, the miseries of the lowly and the poor would appeal to public interest, emotion, compassion, as forcibly as the miseries of the great and the rich; if, in a word, the tears that are shed in low life have the same power to cause tears to flow as the tears shed in ...
— Germinie Lacerteux • Edmond and Jules de Goncourt
... how much longer must I wait to get out of this horrid shape? I wish I had not touched his old bottles and made him angry,' said the snake, and it began to shed streams of tears which ran down and made little green lizards that ...
— The Enchanted Island • Fannie Louise Apjohn
... mental tablet, that one may have a fair chance of knowing, or seeing, perhaps: it does but put one into a duly receptive attitude towards such possible truth, discovery, or revelation, as may one day occupy the ground, the tablet,—shed itself on the purified air; it does not provide a proposition, nor a system of propositions, but ...
— Plato and Platonism • Walter Horatio Pater
... measures, which, before God and his conscience, he believed adequate to the restoration of peace. But his letters had been concealed or falsely interpreted by the late Prince of Orange, who had sought nothing but to spread desolation over the land, and to shed the blood of the innocent. He now wrote once more, and for the last time, in all fervour and earnestness, to implore them to take compassion on their own wives and children and forlorn fatherland, to turn their eyes backward on the peace and prosperity ...
— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley
... and tender language, importuning him to return; and depicting, in the darkest colours, the sufferings he must endure if he survived the attempt to reach Quebec. It affected young Burr very sensibly, insomuch that he shed tears. But his destiny was fixed. He wrote, however, a respectful letter to his uncle, explanatory of his reasons for accompanying the army, and expressive of his gratitude for the kindness he ...
— Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete • Matthew L. Davis


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