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.).
shed (subs.) Copy link Outline I. In ord. sense tectum, tŭgŭriumII. In milit. sense • shed (subs.): I. In ord. sense tectum, tŭgŭrium: v. hovel. II. In milit. sense: for sheltering besiegers: vīnea, plŭteus: v. mantelet.
SHED Copy link • SHED 1. v. effundere: profundere. To shed around, circumfundere: to shed tears, lacrimas offundere, profundere, or projicere; lacrimare; flere: to shed blood, sanguinem effundere, profundere (one’s own blood; e.g., pro patria): caedem or sanguinem facere (the blood of others): to shed the blood of anybody, alicujus sanguinem haurire: to shed, teeth, primores dentes amittere, mutare. To have shed all one’s teeth, omnes dentes habere et renatos et immutabiles (Plin., H.N.): to shed a coat, villos mutare (of a horse, etc.): to shed horns, cornua deponere. 2. s. tugurium: diminutively, tuguriolum: officina (as a workshop; subgrundium = the eaves of a house).