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Definition of Shard

1. Noun. A broken piece of a brittle artifact.

Definition of Shard

1. n. A plant; chard.

2. n. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.

Definition of Shard

1. Noun. A piece of broken glass or pottery, especially one found in an archaeological dig. ¹

2. Noun. A piece of material, especially rock and similar materials, reminding of a broken piece of glass or pottery. ¹

3. Noun. A tough scale, sheath, or shell; especially an elytron of a beetle. ¹

4. Noun. (context: online role-playing) An instance of an MMORPG that is one of several independent and structurally identical virtual worlds, none of which has so many players as to exhaust a system's resources. ¹

5. Verb. (intransitive) To fall apart into shards, usually as the result of impact or explosion. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To break (something) into shards. ¹

7. Verb. (context: online role-playing transitive) To divide (an MMORPG) into several shards, or to establish a shard of one. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shard

1. a fragment of broken pottery [n -S]

Medical Definition of Shard

1. A plant; chard. 1. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail. "The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the board." (E. Arnold) 2. The hard wing case of a beetle. "They are his shards, and he their beetle." (Shak) 3. A gap in a fence. 4. A boundary; a division. Origin: 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. See Shear, and cf. Sherd Alternative forms: sheard, and sherd. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shard

Literary usage of Shard

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"The humble-bee taketh no scorn to lodge in a coin's foule shard. ... shard appears once to be used by Spenser in the sense of boundary ; the boundary in ..."

2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, Horace Howard Furness (1873)
"The shard-born beetle is the beetle born in dung. Aristotle and Pliny mention beetles that breed in dung. Poets as well as natural historians have made the ..."

3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery: During by Great Britain Court of Chancery, Edward Thurlow Thurlow, Alexander Wedderburn Rosslyn, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1845)
"BY the marriage settlement of William and Mary shard, William shard conveyed several premises, to the use, that Mary shard, in case she should survive him, ..."

4. The Jurist by Great Britain Courts (1865)
"617; the following short statement of facts will therefore suffice:—In 1819 one Frances shard, a widow, died intestate, leaving personal assets to about ..."

5. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury (1893)
"... here occasionally, and after his decease, in 1731, the estate was purchased by a Mrs. Hill, from whom it descended to her nephew, Isaac P. shard, ..."

6. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1882)
"... Dan. skaar, score, cut. shard, sherd, fragment. ... (Sewel). sherd ; see shard (above). shirt. (Scand. ..."

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