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▪ I. shedding, n.|ˈʃɛdɪŋ|
[f. shed n.1 + -ing1.]
Sheds collectively; a collection of sheds.
1883Times 26 July 7/5 Shedding of large capacity will be provided. 1889Skrine Mem. E. Thring 152 These were..scheming new bonfires. Whose barns or sheddings were safe? 1898Field 14 May 741/1 Long rows of shedding.
▪ II. shedding, vbl. n.|ˈʃɛdɪŋ|
Also 7 schiding.
[f. shed v.1 + -ing1.]
The action or an act of the verb shed in various senses.
1. a. Separation, parting, division. Also concr. = shed n.1 Now only dial., spec. with reference to sheep. Cf. sheading.
c1200Ormin 16863 Forr Farisew bitacneþþ uss Shædinng onn Ennglissh spæche. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 12418 ‘Dymynucyon’..ys to mene also anoþer þyng, Of þy synne to make shedyng. c1440Hylton Scala Perf. (W. de W. 1494) ii. xxxvi, And this is the yefte of loue that makyth shedynge atwyx chosen soules & reproued. 1598Florio, Scriminatura, the shedding or diuiding of a womans haires of a head. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Greve, La greve des cheveux (&, les cheveux departis en greve), the shedding, or shading of the haire; the parting thereof on the forehead (after the old fashion). 1768Ross Helenore 103 Gin he look'd blyth, the lassie looked mair, For shame was past the shedding o' her hair. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxix, Then we got out to that ‘shedding’ of the roads, which marks the junction of the highways coming down from Glasgow and Edinburgh. 1921Kelso Chron. 26 Aug. 2 Test—Hauld between two poles, drive round trainer, and proceed between two other sets of poles before penning, shedding, and wearing. 1942R. B. Kelley Animal Breeding xv. 140 In Scotland ‘shedding’ is a special feature of the dog's training. 1956J. Murray Rural Rhymes 27 An' them they had a sheep tae pairt Frae a' the rest—ca'ed sheddin'. 1957Dumfries & Galloway Standard 19 Oct. 5/6 Midge had a good run out and the most perfect lift in the competition, perfect fetch, driving and shedding but lost one mark in the penning to total 49 points.
Comb.1609Bible (Douay) Isa. iii. 20 Our Lord shal take away..the sheading combes. 1832Trans. Highl. Soc. 295 When gathered to the same fold or shedding-place together. 1959Times 18 Sept. 7/5 He appeared to be well in the lead when he reached the shedding ring. 1977Field 13 Jan. 55/2 Each dog guided a bunch of sheep round the formalized trial course and finished by bringing them to his master in the ‘shedding’ ring.
b. dial. (concr. in pl.). See quot.
1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 39 The lambs, dinmonts, or wethers, that are drafted out of the fat stock, are called the sheddings or tails.
c. Weaving. The division of the warp threads in such a manner as to permit of the passage between them of a shuttle containing the weft. Also attrib.
1863J. Watson Weaving 84 The sheding being repeated two times over. 1876Barlow Weaving 111 Shedding motions may be classed into about six varieties. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 466/1 The three principal motions, shedding, picking and beating up, are of course the same in both [looms]. Ibid., The treadles called the shedding tappets.
2. a. Effusion, pouring out; esp. of blood, tears, † secretions.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 65 Ne bringð no synful man quemere loc þenne teares sheding. a1225Ancr. R. 262 Ȝet nabbe ȝe nout wiðstonden uorte þet þe schedunge of ower blode. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 465 b, They could not kepe them from sheding of teares. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden ii. 5 It helpeth..the shedding of the gall. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 38 Their persons were rendered sacred..by unction, or the shedding of hallowed oil upon them. 1874A. O'Shaughnessy Music & Moonlight 200 Base sheddings of base blood.
†b. Infusion, diffusion. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. ix. (1495) 55 By vertue of spredynge and of shedynge of the spyryte of felynge in to all the synewes, all the makynge of the body is founde able to moeue. c1430Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. xix. (1869) 185 In whiche we hadden putte fillinge of þe grete tresores of Paradys, þat was the sweete shedinge of oure grace.
†c. shedding of nature: gonorrhœa. Obs.
1584Cogan Haven Health xlii. 52 A verie good medicine for the shedding of nature.
3. a. Dropping, scattering or letting fall, or parting with something.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. vii. 9 Summe schul souwe sakkes for schedyng of Whete. 1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §35 [Some] do fan theyr corne, the whiche is..a great saueguarde for shedynge of the corne. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa i. 38 Unnaturall shedding of haire. 1732A. Monro Anatomy (ed. 2) 170 This Shedding of the Teeth is of good Use. 1863A. Ewing in A. J. Ross Mem. (1877) 356 Our life has far more in it than is suggested by the growing and shedding of leaves.
b. concr. in pl. Shed leaves, etc.
1803Wordsw. Poems Imag., Yew-trees 22 Upon whose grassless floor of red brown hue, By sheddings from the pining umbrage tinged Perennially. 1856Aird Poet. Wks. 294 She trode the dun-brown sheddings of the pine.
c. The letting fall of seeds.
1721Pope Let. to E. Blount 21 Oct., Old Fletcher of Saltoune said one day to me. ‘..I am like a Tree without a Prop, and without young Trees of my own shedding, to grow round me, for Company and Defence.’
d. The premature falling of the young bolls of cotton plants.
1899Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 728 Over the eastern portion shedding was reported, with complaints of drought in portions of the Carolinas. 1974J. W. Purseglove Trop. Crops 348 The first flowering period requires relative dryness, otherwise excessive boll shedding ensues.
4. Electr. = load-shedding s.v. load n. 8. Also fig.
1945Electrician 25 May 457/1 Some shedding of the load may still be unavoidable during next winter. 1958Listener 12 June 990/3 In June there is a shedding of the load of serious drama. 1971IEEE Trans. Power Apparatus & Systems XC. 1460/2 The load selected for shedding will be different for various systems because of geographical, historical, political and reliability factors.
▪ III. shedding, ppl. a.|ˈʃɛdɪŋ|
[f. shed v.1 + -ing2.]
That sheds, in various senses of the verb.
1.
†a. Of liquids: Self-diffusing. Obs.
1587Golding De Mornay xv. 272 The bodie is in the Soule, as..a sheading or liquid thing in a thing that is not liquid [orig. comme..le coulant en ce qui ne coule point].
b. Dropping or casting leaves or petals.
1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 439 The shedding trees began the ground to strow With yellow leaves. 1782J. Scott Poet. Wks. 261 And green slopes redden with the shedding rose.
c. (See quot.)
1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) I. 81 Shedding (caducus) continuing but a short time. Ibid. 262 Cup 4 leaves, leafits egg-shaped, coloured, shedding.
d. shedding tooth: any of the primary or milk teeth, which fall out and are replaced by the permanent teeth.
1799Home in Phil. Trans. LXXXIX. 258 A view of the grinding surface of a shedding tooth. 1822–29Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 47 The permanent teeth have separate sockets of their own; and..do not lie immediately under the corresponding shedding teeth. 1833Hunter's Catal. Physiol. Ser. Comp. Anat. Mus. Coll. Surg. I. 100 The shedding tooth falls some time before the succeeding tooth can supply its uses.
e. fig. Of divisions of time: Passing.
1816L. Hunt Rimini iii. 134 The glass that told the shedding hours.
†2. Dividing, parting, separating. Obs. rare.
a1674Bunyan Reprob. Asserted i. (1696) 2 These words were shedding words, they sever between Men and Men.
†3. Sloping. Obs.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 73/1 A Barn with a sheeding Ridg. 1747Hooson Miner's Dict. Q 1 b, If a Rock appears to the Day,..where it seems to cut off, and more especially on Sheeding ground.
▪ IV. shedding, shede
obs. ff. sheading, sheath. |