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Shard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel or of any brittle substance. Obs .

2. The shell of an egg or of a snail.

3. A plant. [ chard .]

4. A frith or strait; as a perilous shard .

5. A gap.

6. A fish.

Shard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A plant; chard.

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

3. The hard wing case of a beetle.

4. A gap in a fence.

5. A boundary; a division.

Shard-borne [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Borne on shards or scaly wing cases.

Shardborn [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Born or produced among among fragments, or in crevices; as the shardborn beetle.

2. Johnson suggests that shard may perhaps signify the sheath of the witgs of insects. In this case, the word should be written shardborne , and defined, born in the air by sheathed wings. Such is Todd's explanation of the word in Shakespeare. The word shard may perhaps be used for the crustaceous wing of an insect, but I know not that such a sense is legitimate. [See Sharded .]

Sharded [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having wings sheathed with a hard case; as the sharded beetle. Inhabiting shards.

Sharded [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having elytra, as a beetle.

Shardy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having, or consisting of, shards.