shaded, ppl. a.
(ˈʃeɪdɪd)
[f. shade v.1 + -ed1.]
1. a. Protected from light or heat.
| 1634 Habington Castara i. (Arb.) 49 I'de rather like the violet grow Vnmarkt i'th shaded vale. a 1691 Boyle Hist. Air (1692) 153, I placed a piece of amber in a shaded part of a window. 1756 M. Calderwood in Coltness Collect. (Maitl. Club) 186 There are shaded walks for study and contemplation. 1827 Keble Burial of Dead 45 in Lyra Apost. (1849) 59 If human anguish o'er the shaded brow Pass shuddering, when the handful of pure earth Touches the coffin lid. 1897 M. Kingsley W. Africa 276 These narrow shaded swamps gave us a world of trouble. |
b. Of a lamp, candle: Covered with a shade. Also as second element with a specifying colour.
| 1836 Dickens Sk. Boz (1837) 2nd Ser. 352 A shaded lamp by the bed-side. 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. v, He was standing with some papers in his hand by a table with shaded candles on it. 1866 Mrs. H. Wood St. Martin's Eve xxxviii, A small shaded reading lamp. 1881 Lady D. Hardy Through Cities & Prairie Lands 96 The shaded lamps were lighted. 1903 H. James Ambassadors xvi. 222 His dinner with Maria Gostrey, between the pink-shaded candles. 1956 E. Grierson Second Man i. 32 The secluded corner table with the shaded lights. 1973 I. Drummond Jaws of Watchdog xii. 157 A red-shaded lamp. |
2. Covered with shadow.
| 1670 Dryden 1st Pt. Conq. Granada iii. i. Song (1673) 27 From her white Temples fell her shaded Hair, Like Cloudy Sunshine, not too brown nor fair. 1725 Pope Odyss. xi. 12 O'er the shaded billows rush'd the night. 1829 Chapters Phys. Sci. 402 If the moon indeed be attentively viewed, some days after her conjunction, the boundary of the shaded part will be seen as it were indented. |
† 3. Obscurely hinted, shadowed forth. Obs.
| 1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus K iv, His highnes perceiuing the shaded drift, called a counsell of diuers noble men [etc.]. |
4. a. Having colours gradually passing into one another, marked with gradations of colour.
| 1710 Steele Tatler No. 151 ¶1, The artificial nosegay, and shaded furbelow. 1799 Hull Advertiser 25 May 3/1 A complete stock of shaded worsted. 1891 ‘J. S. Winter’ Lumley v, These shaded pink geraniums are exquisite. |
b. In collectors' names of moths: see quots.
| 1832 J. Rennie Butterfl. & Moths Index 277 Shaded Broad Bar. 1869 E. Newman Brit. Moths 151 The Shaded Broad Bar (Thera obeliscata). Ibid. 122 The Shaded Pug (Eupithecia subumbrata). |
5. Of a drawing, etc.: see shade v.1 7. Also, of a colour or coloured object: Edged or variegated with some darker colour.
| 1796 Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) IV. 188 Gills extremely white: pileus mouse-colour, shaded with brown. 1813 Shelley Q. Mab ii. 17 Those far clouds of feathery gold, Shaded with deepest purple. 1839 R. S. Robinson Naut. Steam Eng. 107 The shaded spaces b b, representing the position of the valve when shut. 1869 Athenæum 20 Feb. 279/1 An outline woodcut copy, and also a shaded one, of Occleve's beautiful miniature of Chaucer. 1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing (ed. Ringwalt) 405 Shaded, a general name for many varieties of job-letter, in which the main character is shaded. |
6. Of prices, values, etc.: see shade v.1 9 c.
| 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 26 Jan. 4/1 Oilcakes in limited demand at shaded rates. 1976 Birmingham Post 16 Dec. 9/11 R. and A. G. Crossland at 16½p and Moss Engineering 44p shaded, brighter contrasts being provided by Willmot Breeden at 49p. |