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noun
Shard  n.  (Written also sheard, and sherd)  
1.
A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail. "The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board."
2.
(Zool.) The hard wing case of a beetle. "They are his shards, and he their beetle."
3.
A gap in a fence. (Obs.)
4.
A boundary; a division. (Obs. & R.)





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"Shard" Quotes from Famous Books



... of our life, which also is earth-sown, earth-rooted; which must struggle upward, be cut down, rotted and broken, ere the separation take place between our dross and our worth—poor perishable shard and immortal fibre. Oh, the mystery, the mystery of that growth from the casting of the soul as a seed into the dark earth, until the time when, led through all natural changes and cleansed of weakness, it is borne from the fields of its ...
— The Reign of Law - A Tale of the Kentucky Hemp Fields • James Lane Allen
... We sailors o' the North, wife, how could we lag?— Strike with your kin, and you stick to the flag! But to sailors o' the South that easy way was barred. To some, dame, believe (and I speak o' what I know), Wormwood the trial and the Uzzite's black shard; And the faithfuller the heart, the crueller the throe. Duty? It pulled with more than one string, This way and that, and anyhow a sting. The flag and your kin, how be true unto both? If either plight ye keep, then ye break the other troth. But elect here they must, ...
— John Marr and Other Poems • Herman Melville
... strong, Of shard and flint makes jewels gay; They lose their grief who hear his song, And where he winds is the day ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various


Words linked to "Shard" :   sherd, piece


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