SHED, v.t. pret. and pp. shed.

1. To pour out; to effuse; to spill; to suffer to flow out; as, to shed tears; to shed blood. The sun sheds light on the earth; the stars shed a more feeble light.

This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. Matt. 26.

2. To let fall; to cast; as, the trees shed their leaves on autumn; fowls shed their fethers; and serpents shed their skin.

3. To scatter to emit; to throw off; to diffuse; as, flowers shed their sweets of fragrance.

SHED, v.i. To let fall its parts.

White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand.

1. A slight building; a covering of timber and boards, &c: for shelter against rain and the inclemencies of weather; a poor house or hovel; as, a horse-shed. The first Aletes born in lowly shed. – Fairfax. Sheds of reeds which summer's heat repel. – Sandys.
2. In composition, effusion; as in blood-shed. [See the Verb.]

To let fall its parts. White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand. – Mortimer.

1. To cause or stiffer to flow out; as, to shed tears; to shed blood. The sun sheds light on the earth; the stars shed a more feeble light. This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. – Matth. xxvi.
2. To let fall; to cast; as the trees shed their leaves in autumn; fowls shed their feathers; and serpents shed their skin.
3. To scatter; to emit; to throw off; to diffuse; as, flowers shed their sweets or fragrance. [The peculiar sense of this word is to cast off something that belongs to the body, either a substance or a quality. Applied to animals and plants, it expresses a periodical casting off of a natural covering.]

To keep off; to prevent from entering; as a hut, umbrella or garment that sheds rain.

1. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure usually open in front; an outbuilding; a hut; as, a wagon shed; a wood shed.
   
   

   The first Aletes born in lowly shed. Fairfax.

   Sheds of reeds which summer's heat repel. Sandys.

2. To separate; to divide.
   
   
   [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Robert of Brunne.
3. To fall in drops; to pour.
   
   
   [Obs.]

   Such a rain down from the welkin shadde. Chaucer.

4. A parting; a separation; a division.
   
   
   [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

   They say also that the manner of making the shed of newwedded wives' hair with the iron head of a javelin came up then likewise. Sir T. North.

5. A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.
6. 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.

7. To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
   
   

   White oats are apt to shed most as they lie, and black as they stand. Mortimer.

8. The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
9. 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.
10. That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.
11. To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.
12. The passageway between the threads of the warp through which the shuttle is thrown, having a sloping top and bottom made by raising and lowering the alternate threads.
13. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
    
    
    [R.] "Her hair . . . is shed with gray." B. Jonson.
14. To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.