shed (v.) Copy link Outline I. To let fall, to scatterII. Of trees, to part with their foliage; also, of animals, to part with hair, teeth, etc. • shed (v.): I. To let fall, to scatter: to throw off: fundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3: and he s.s tears copiously at each word, et multum lacrimas verba inter singula f., Virg. Aen. 3, 348: has not enough of Latin blood been shed? parumne fusum est Latini sanguinis? Hor. Epod. 7, 4. Comp. (1). effundo, 3: to s. tears, lacrimas e., Cic. Planc. 42, 101. (2). prŏfundo, 3 (to shed copiously): I have s. floods of tears, vim lacrimarum profudi, id. Rep. 6, 14, fin.; he is eager to s. all his own blood, sanguinem suum p. omnem cupit, Cic. Clu. 6, 18. (3). diffundo, 3 (to s. abroad): light s. abroad over the whole sky, toto coelo lux diffusa, Cic. N. D. 2, 37, fin.: Lucr. Phr.: to s. light on a subject, lumen alicui rei adhibere, Cic. de Or. 3, 13, fin., afferre, ib. 2, 86, 353. II. Of trees, to part with their foliage; also, of animals, to part with hair, teeth, etc.: Phr.: children s. their teeth, infantibus dentes cadunt, cf. Lucr. 5, 671: trees which s. their leaves, arbores quarum folia decidunt, cf. Plin. 18, 25, 60: the sheep s. their wool of their own accord, lanigeris gregibus sponte sua lanae cadunt, Ov. M. 7, 541: to s. the feathers, plumas ponere, exuere (Kr.).