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shade sb. (1 only in rhyme; 3 cf. SHADOW 6)
1. (a person's) shadow Sonn. liii. 3.
2. visionary appearance Sonn. xliii. 8, 11
3. phantom Wiv. V. v. 44 “Fairies . . . moonshine revellers, and shades of night.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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