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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



... twins, after describing how they were ill simultaneously up to the age of fifteen, adds, that they shed their first milk-teeth within a few ...
— Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development • Francis Galton
... rejoiced in the victory of Waterloo—no one was more elated by the prospect of its glorious results: for the restoration of the monarchy he was most willing to shed the last drop of his blood. But not such was the manner in which he had hoped to see it take place ; he had hoped it would have been more spontaneous, and the work of the French themselves to overthrow the usurpation. He felt, ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay
... list of the cruel-looking river's victims. Standing there, with one hand on the rough rail, and staring with fascinated eyes on the dull muddy water, she does not hear a step behind her. The shadow of a man, who has apparently followed her, glides from behind the bathing-shed, and stealing down to the woman on the verge of the stream, lays a delicate white hand on her shoulder. She turns with a startled cry, and Kitty Marchurst and Gaston Vandeloup are looking into one another's eyes. Kitty's charming face is worn and pallid, and the hand which clutches ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume
... they confessed themselves as frankly baffled and ignorant as I. Archer knew nothing, and all that Miss Harris could say was that an old allusion her grandfather, Dutee Harris, had heard of might have shed a little light. The old seaman, who had survived his son Welcome's death in battle by two years, had not himself known the legend, but recalled that his earliest nurse, the ancient Maria Robbins, seemed darkly aware of something that might have lent a weird ...
— The Shunned House • Howard Phillips Lovecraft
... two yelling and dancing lads in the road, the old farmer made for the shed, and it was seen that he had a ...
— Frank Merriwell at Yale • Burt L. Standish


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