| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | of Shed | 
											
															| • | To separate; to divide. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | 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. | 
											
															| • | To cause to flow off without penetrating; as, a tight
   roof, or covering of oiled cloth, sheeds water. | 
											
															| • | To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover. | 
											
															| • | To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or
   passageway, for the shuttle. | 
											
															| • | To fall in drops; to pour. | 
											
															| • | To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a
   covering or envelope. | 
											
															| • | A parting; a separation; a division. | 
											
															| • | The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition,
   as in bloodshed. | 
											
															| • | That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition,
   as in watershed. | 
											
															| • | 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. |