SHADE

Definitions

1. 1. To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to keep off illumination from. Milton. I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our altars with their leafy greens. Dryden.
2. 2. 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. Shak.
3. 3. To obscure; to dim the brightness of. Thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams. Milton.
4. 4. To pain in obscure colors; to darken.
5. 5. To mark with gradations of light or color.
6. 6. 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. Spenser.