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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shard  \Shard\  (sh[aum]rd),  n. 
  A  plant;  chard.  [Obs.]  --Dryden. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shard  \Shard\,  n.  [AS.  sceard,  properly  a  p.  p.  from  the  root  of 
  scearn  to  shear,  to  cut;  akin  to  D.  schaard  a  fragment,  G. 
  scharte  a  notch,  Icel.  skar[eth].  See  {Shear},  and  cf 
  {Sherd}.]  [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. 
  --Shak. 
 
  The  precious  dish  Broke  into  shards  of  beauty  on  the 
  board.  --E.  Arnold. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  The  hard  wing  case  of  a  beetle. 
 
  They  are  his  shards,  and  he  their  beetle.  --Shak. 
 
  3.  A  gap  in  a  fence.  [Obs.]  --Stanyhurst. 
 
  4.  A  boundary;  a  division.  [Obs.  &  R.]  --Spenser. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  shard 
  n  :  a  broken  piece  of  a  brittle  artifact  [syn:  {sherd},  {fragment}] 




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