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scheden

1. plural of schede

• schedes

• sced, schaden, schedde, schede, scheed, scheede, schode, shede, shedyn, sheede, shode, ssede
• (early) shædenn, scheaden, sheaden

From Old English scēadan, scādan, from Proto-West Germanic *skaiþan, from Proto-Germanic *skaiþaną, from Proto-Indo-European *skeyt-.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃɛːdən/

scheden (third-person singular simple present schedeth, present participle schedynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative schedde, past participle sched)

1. To divide or separate in two:
   1. To part or comb (hair).
   2. To cast off; to set apart.
   3. To leave; to depart.
2. To break up; to divide into pieces:
   1. To disperse; to sprinkle around.
   2. To separate out; to scatter.
3. To send out liquid:
   1. To pour out; to spill out.
      • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Monkes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, , →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, , : [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes , 1542, →OCLC:

        swich a reyn doun fro the welkne shadde

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   2. To secrete or discharge (liquid)
   3. To cause to discharge.
4. To radiate, cast or give off (light)
5. To fall; to be falling (of weather or hair)
6. (rare) To shield (from); to keep away.
7. (of sight, rare) To make weak or nonfunctional.

• sched
• scheder
• schedynge
• toscheden

• English: shed
• Scots: shed
• Yola: shet (preterite)

• “shēden, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.