shed´like´

shed¹ «shehd», noun, verb, shed|ded, shed|ding.

–n.

1. a building used for shelter or storage of goods or vehicles, usually having only one story and often open at the front or sides: »

a wagon shed, a tool shed, a train shed.

2. a hut; cottage: »

To shame the meanness of his humble shed (Oliver Goldsmith).

3. any covering, such as the lair of an animal.

–v.t.

to place in a shed: »

to shed sheep, to shed cotton bolls.

╂Middle English shadde apparently variant of shade, Old English scead shelter]

–shed´like´, adjective.

shed² «shehd», noun, shed, shed|ding, noun.

–v.t.

1. to pour out; cause to flow; let fall: »

The girl shed tears. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterward (Theodore Roosevelt).

2. to throw off; cast off; let drop or fall: »

The umbrella sheds water. The snake sheds its skin. The duke shed his coat (Mark Twain).

SYNONYM(S): molt, discard.

3. to scatter abroad; give forth: »

The sun sheds light. Flowers shed perfume. Figurative. They [the reports] were aimed at shedding light on the need for additional power (New York Times).

SYNONYM(S): emit, diffuse.

4. Figurative. to get rid of: »

to shed one's worries, to shed inhibitions. “I'm going to lose ten pounds,” she said, causing Studs to think, pleased, that she could shed that weight without hurting her figure (James T. Farrell).

5. Informal. to divorce: »

She [had] shed a nice, well-heeled Yale man a few years before on the ambiguous grounds of mental cruelty (Harper's).

–v.i.

1. to throw off a covering, hair, etc.: »

That snake has just shed. The cats are shedding.

2. to drop or fall, as leaves or grain from the ear.

–n.

1. something that is or has been shed.

2. a watershed or ridge of high ground.

╂[Old English scēadan]

shed³ «shayd», noun, plural she|dim.

(in Jewish folklore) an evil spirit or demon.

╂[< Hebrew shēdh < Assyrian shēdu]

she'd «sheed; unstressed shihd»,

1. she had.

2. she would.