noun. A screening against light or heat.

noun. The lines or other marks used to fill in outlines of a sketch, engraving, or painting to represent gradations of color or darkness.

noun. A small variation, gradation, or difference.

noun. The act or process of making a shade; interception of light; obscuration.

noun. That which represents the effect of light and shade in a drawing; the filling up of an outline.

noun. Act or process of making a shade.

noun. That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.

verb. Present participle of shade.

noun. graded markings that indicate light or shaded areas in a drawing or painting

noun. a gradation involving small or imperceptible differences between grades

"I say, and Brianna stills, the sneer on her face slipping, her expression shading into something different, something fearful and lost."