transitive. To protect or shelter (a person or thing) from the sun; to shade. Now rare or Obsolete.

transitive. To screen from light or heat, to protect from the glare or heat of the sun's rays.

transitive. To shade, to protect.

transitive. To shade or shadow; also figurative, to overshadow, put in the shade.

transitive. To serve as a parasol for, to shade. Also intransitive: to act like a parasol.

transitive. To envelop in shade.