shardn. A plant; chard.(Dryden.)n.[AS. sceard, properly a p. p. from the root of scearn to shear, to cut; akin to D. schaard a fragment, G. scharte a notch, Icel. skar. See Shear, and cf. Sherd.]1. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.(Shak.)The precious dish
Broke into shards of beauty on the board. (E. Arnold.)2. (Zol.) The hard wing case of a beetle.()They are his shards, and he their beetle. (Shak.)3. A gap in a fence.(Stanyhurst.)4. A boundary; a division.(Spenser.)