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Shed   /ʃɛd/   Listen
Shed

verb
(past & past part. shed; pres. part. shedding)
1.
Get rid of.  Synonyms: cast, cast off, drop, shake off, throw, throw away, throw off.  "Shed your clothes"
2.
Pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities.  Synonyms: pour forth, spill.  "Spill blood" , "God shed His grace on Thee"
3.
Cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over.  Synonyms: disgorge, spill.
4.
Cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers.  Synonyms: exuviate, molt, moult, slough.
noun
1.
An outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage.
adjective
1.
Shed at an early stage of development.  Synonym: caducous.  "The caducous calyx of a poppy"



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"Shed" Quotes from Famous Books



... right," he said, and the next morning he was busy in the shed in the bottom of the garden. He came to his afternoon meal with glee, and directly it was over, took his wife away to see what he had been doing. The shed had two floors, with a trap-door in the middle. To the topmost corner of the upper story he had fixed a pole which ...
— Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers - Gideon; Samuel; Saul; Miriam's Schooling; and Michael Trevanion • Mark Rutherford
... him for the cruel massacre of Drogheda. In battle he would have gladly slain him, but he was determined to save him from assassination. He felt the man to be a great Englishman, and knew that it was greatly due to his counsels that so little English blood had been shed upon the scaffold. Most of all, he thought that his assassination would injure the royal cause. The time was not yet ripe for a restoration. England had shown but lately that there existed no enthusiasm for the royal cause. At Cromwell's death the chief power would fall into ...
— Friends, though divided - A Tale of the Civil War • G. A. Henty
... weakened by Bulgarian regiments being withdrawn and sent down to the Macedonian front, where Monastir was in grave danger and was presently to fall to the French-Russian-Serbian forces. From this moment a silence settles over this front; when Mackensen again emerges into the light shed by official dispatches, it is to execute some of the most brilliant moves that have yet been made during the ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume VI (of VIII) - History of the European War from Official Sources • Various
... said mamma; "he should not have been left out when Mr. Weasel was around. But we will buy another Bunny, two Bunnies, a white one and a black one, and they shall have a nice little house in the wood-shed, where ...
— Harper's Young People, December 16, 1879 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... of the secret of their origin? Or can we derive from the reasons which the investigators urge in favor of the idea of an origin of species through descent and evolution, the hope that that mysterious darkness of prehistoric times upon which the works of our century have shed so much light, will still be illuminated even to the sources from which organic species came, and from which mankind also originated? We must leave the decision of these questions to the ...
— The Theories of Darwin and Their Relation to Philosophy, Religion, and Morality • Rudolf Schmid


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