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noun

Shading n.

Act or process of making a shade.

That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.

verb

Shade v. t. (past & past part. shaded; pres. part. shading)

To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. "I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens."

To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen; to hide; as, to shade one's eyes. "Ere in our own house I do shade my head."

To obscure; to dim the brightness of. "Thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams."

To pain in obscure colors; to darken.

To mark with gradations of light or color.

To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. (Obs.) "(The goddess) in her person cunningly did shade That part of Justice which is Equity."

Shade v. i. To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off. "This small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades."

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"Shading" Quotes from Famous Books

... we?" queried Julius, peering out of the window, his hand shading his eyes. "Nowhere in ...

— The Brown Study • Grace S. Richmond

... interval had left the splitting table and had ascended the sloping rock a little way, where she now stood, shading her eyes with her right hand and gazing intently seaward. Suddenly she began gesticulating wildly, and shouting, and over the water to Abel came ...

— Bobby of the Labrador • Dillon Wallace

... week—." He turned away and gave a thrust to the smouldering fire. I followed, glad to leave the picture behind me. Grancy threw himself into a chair near the hearth, so that the light fell on his sensitive variable face. He leaned his head back, shading his eyes with his hand, and ...

— Crucial Instances • Edith Wharton

... and Elias, who, illumined by a dazzling splendour, burst into life in His light. Prostrate on the ground, in attitudes of great beauty and variety, are Peter, James, and John; one has his head to the earth, and another, shading his eyes with his hands, is defending himself from the rays and intense light of the splendour of Christ. He, clothed in snow-white raiment, with His arms outstretched and His head raised, appears to reveal the Divine essence and nature of all the Three Persons united and concentrated in Himself ...

— Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects - Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo • Giorgio Vasari

... are works of art. The front are a rich olive brown, marked the long way in the middle by a wide band of buff, shading to lighter buff at the base. They are edged from the costa to where they meet the back wings, with a line of almost equal width of darker buff, the lower edge touched with white. Beginning at the base, and running an equal distance apart ...

— Moths of the Limberlost • Gene Stratton-Porter

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