shardedadj.1
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [adjective] > having skin of particular type > scaly
sharded1390
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 251 That Serpent..was so scherded al aboute, It hield all eggetol withoute, He was so ruide and hard of skin, Ther mihte nothing go therin.
2. Reduced to shards or fragments; of the moon, reduced to a crescent.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > separation or breaking up into constituent parts > [adjective] > incohesive > separating into small pieces > fragmented
sharded1582
fragmenteda1817
morcellated1953
the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [adjective] > crescent
falcated1704
sharded1876
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil Descr. Liparen in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 94 With rent rocks chamferye sharded.
1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd ii. 120 The sharded moon.
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† shardedadj.2
Obsolete. rare.
Of a beetle: Living in dung.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [adjective] > living or born in dung
shard-borna1616
shardeda1616
stercorarious1826
stercoricolous1885
stercoraceous1891
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. iii. 20 And o[f]ten to our comfort, shall we finde The sharded-Beetle, in a safer hold Then is the full-wing'd Eagle. View more context for this quotation
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