 2 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shaded
adjective
1: protected from heat and light with shade or shadow; "shaded
avenues"; "o'er the shaded billows rushed the night"-
Alexander Pope [ant: {unshaded}]
2: (of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or
gradations of shadow; "the shaded areas of the face seemed
to recede" [ant: {unshaded}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shade \Shade\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Shaded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shading}.]
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. 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. To obscure; to dim the brightness of.
Thou shad'st
The full blaze of thy beams. --Milton.
4. To pain in obscure colors; to darken.
5. To mark with gradations of light or color.
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.
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