- 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.ObsThe goddess] in her person cunningly did shade That part of Justice which is Equity.
