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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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... 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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