shady (shad i)

[= G. schattig; as shade + -y1. Cf. shadowy.] 1. Abounding with or affording shade. Their babble and talk vnder bushes and shadie trees, the first disputation and contentious reasoning. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 30. Shady coverts yield a cool retreat. Add is on, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. IMG:content-0772.png:[blocks in formation] The sent-strong Swallow sweepeth to and fro, As swift as shafts fly from a Turkish Bowe. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 5. feet, and a width of 10 or 12. IMG:content-0773.png:[blocks in formation] A mitre Was forged all of fyne gold, and fret fulle of perrils, Stizt staffulle of stanes that strazt out bemes As it ware schemer and schaftis of the schire sonne. King Alexander, p. 53, quoted in Alliterative Poems (ed. [Morris), Glo ., p. 189. A you sand shafts of lightning pa . Bryant, Legend of the Del a wares. 4. A body of a long cylindrical shape; an branched stem, stalk, trunk, or the like; the columnar part of anything. Specifically - (a) In arch.: (1) The body of a column between the base and the capital; the fust or trunk. It generally diminishes in diameter, sometimes from the bottom, sometimes from a quarter or from a third of its height, and sometimes it has a slight swelling, called the entasis. In Ionic and Corinthian columns the difference of the upper and lower diameters of the shaft varies from a fifth to a twelfth of the lower diameter. See column. (2) In medieval architecture, one of the small columns often clustered around main pillars, applied against a wall to receive the impost of a rib, an arch, etc., or used in the jambs of doors and windows, in arcades, etc. See cuts under jamb - shaft and pillar. (3) The spire of a steeple. (4) The part of a chimney which rises above the roof. (b) In ornith.: (1) The cor a humming bird, Thaumastura cor a. See cut under shear tail. (2) The main stem, stock, or scape of a feather, including both calamus and rachis. (c) In an at.: (1) The part of a hair which is free and projects beyond the surface of the skin, between the root and the point, or as far as the pith extends. See hair, n., 1. (2) The continuity or diaphysis of a long bone, as distinguished from its articular extremi .. Cast it also that you may have rooms shady for summer and warm for winter. Bacon , Building (ed. 1887). We will go home through the wood: that will be the shadiest way. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, xxxvii. 3. Such as cannot bear the light; of doubtful honesty or morality: as, a shady transaction. [Colloq.] There were admirers of Putney: workmen of rebellious repute and of advanced opinions on social and religious questions; nonsuited plaintiffs and defendants of shady record, for whom he had at one time or another done what Howells, Annie Kilburn, xxv. he could. His principal busine seems to have been a billiard marker, which he combined with much shadier ways of getting money. The Century , XXXV. 558. On the shady side of, beyond: used with reference to age: as, to be on the shady side of forty. [Colloq.] - To keep shady, to keep dark. [Slang.]