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shedding
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shed \Shed\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Shed; p. pr. & vb. n. Shedding.] [OE. scheden, sch?den, to pour, to part, AS. sc[=a]dan, sce['a]dan, to pert, to separate; akin to OS. sk??an, OFries. sk?tha, G. scheiden, OHG. sceidan, Goth. skaidan, and probably to Lith. sk["e]du I part, separate, L. scindere to cleave, to split, Gr. ???, Skr. chid, and perch. also to L. caedere to cut. [root]159. Cf. Chisel, Concise, Schism, Sheading, Sheath, Shide.]
To separate; to divide. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
--Robert of Brunne.-
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?
--Shak.Twice seven consenting years have shed Their utmost bounty on thy head.
--Wordsworth. 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.
To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover. [R.] ``Her hair . . . is shed with gray.''
--B. Jonson.(Weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
Shedding \Shed"ding\, n.
The act of shedding, separating, or casting off or out; as, the shedding of blood.
That which is shed, or cast off. [R.]
--Wordsworth.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of shedding, separating, or cast off. 2 That which is shed, or cast off. vb. (present participle of shed English)
WordNet
adj. shed at an early stage of development; "most amphibians have caducous gills"; "the caducous calyx of a poppy" [syn: caducous] [ant: persistent]
[also: shedding]
n. the process whereby something is shed [syn: sloughing]
loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales [syn: desquamation, peeling]
n. an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
v. get rid of; "he shed his image as a pushy boss"; "shed your clothes" [syn: cast, cast off, shake off, throw, throw off, throw away, drop]
pour out in drops or small quantities or as if in drops or small quantities; "shed tears"; "spill blood"; "God shed His grace on Thee" [syn: spill, pour forth]
cause or allow (a solid substance) to flow or run out or over; "spill the beans all over the table" [syn: spill, disgorge]
cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers; "out dog sheds every Spring" [syn: molt, exuviate, moult, slough]
[also: shedding]
See shed
Wikipedia
Shedding may refer to:
- Shedding or moulting of body parts
- Desquamation, pathologic or non-pathologic skin shedding
- Peeling of the skin
- A family of card games where the objective is the "shedding" of one's hand
- Natural hair loss in cats and dogs
- Viral shedding which is the release of virus progeny following successful reproduction during a host-cell infection.
Usage examples of "shedding".
A sickle moon rode the purple skies, shedding just enough light to distinguish the huddled shapes a few yards away as men, rather than rocks.
Morel, and now that Denise had served her purpose, Lily had shed her like a snake shedding its skin.
The fuzzy stems were still shedding, and Nori shook, then bent the leaves into a quick shelter before crawling inside.
Then she made her way back to bed, shedding her nightdress, too, along the way.
He considered moving her to the rear cargo bed, but it was cluttered with mangled chew toys and carpeted with Labrador sheddings.
Between the yearly layers of pine, fir, and cedar sheddings lay bits of uncountable cigarettes packs, weather-yellowed pornography, candy wrappers, condoms, dead flashlight batteries, and clusters of stolen Mercedes hood ornaments.
Then I took the broom and pushed it across the cave floor, farther and farther forward, until it came to the edge and fell over, all that dust and grit and sheddings of the hive falling down like snow on the canyon bottom.
But these sheddings of tears were like so many candle-flames or kitchen-fires: elements of domestic life, controlled, unremarkable.