shedn.[The same word as shade. See Shade.]1. A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure often 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. (Aronautics) A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.()v. t.[OE. scheden, schden, to pour, to part, AS. scdan, scedan, to pert, to separate; akin to OS. skan, OFries. sktha, G. scheiden, OHG. sceidan, Goth. skaidan, and probably to Lith. skdu I part, separate, L. scindere to cleave, to split, Gr. , Skr. chid, and perch. also to L. caedere to cut. 159. Cf. Chisel, Concise, Schism, Sheading, Sheath, Shide.]1. To separate; to divide.(Robert of Brunne.)2. 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.)3. 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.()4. To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water.()5. To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.(B. Jonson.)6. (Weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.()v. i.1. To fall in drops; to pour.()Such a rain down from the welkin shadde. (Chaucer.)2. 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.)n.1. A parting; a separation; a division.()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.)2. The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.()3. That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.()4. (Weaving) 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.()