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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shaded
adj
  1. protected from heat and light with shade or shadow; "shaded avenues"; "o'er the shaded billows rushed the night"- Alexander Pope
    Antonym(s): unshaded
  2. (of pictures or drawings) drawn or painted with degrees or gradations of shadow; "the shaded areas of the face seemed to recede"
    Antonym(s): unshaded
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shade \Shade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shaded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shading}.]
      1. To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to
            keep off illumination from. --Milton.
  
                     I went to crop the sylvan scenes, And shade our
                     altars with their leafy greens.         --Dryden.
  
      2. To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen;
            to hide; as, to shade one's eyes.
  
                     Ere in our own house I do shade my head. --Shak.
  
      3. To obscure; to dim the brightness of.
  
                     Thou shad'st The full blaze of thy beams. --Milton.
  
      4. To pain in obscure colors; to darken.
  
      5. To mark with gradations of light or color.
  
      6. To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to
            represent. [Obs.]
  
                     [The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade That
                     part of Justice which is Equity.         --Spenser.
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