Vocabulary : Shackling to Shaded

Shackling : of Shackle
Shacklock : A sort of shackle.
Shackly : Shaky; rickety.
Shad : Any one of several species of food fishes of the Herring family. The American species (Clupea sapidissima), which is abundant on the Atlantic coast and ascends the larger rivers in spring to spawn, is an important market fish. The European allice shad, or alose (C. alosa), and the twaite shad. (C. finta), are less important species.
Shadbird : The American, or Wilson's, snipe. See under Snipe. So called because it appears at the same time as the shad. ;; The common European sandpiper.

Shadd : Rounded stones containing tin ore, lying at the surface of the ground, and indicating a vein.
Shadde : obs. imp. of Shed.
Shaddock : A tree (Citrus decumana) and its fruit, which is a large species of orange; -- called also forbidden fruit, and pompelmous.
Shade : To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off. ;; Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light. ;; Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural. ;; An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a secluded retreat. ;; That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection; shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade. ;; Shadow. ;; The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes. ;; The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above. ;; Degree or variation of color, as d
Shaded : of Shade

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