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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
shard
    n 1: a broken piece of a brittle artifact [syn: shard,
         sherd, fragment]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Shard \Shard\ (sh[aum]rd), n.
   A plant; chard. [Obs.] --Dryden.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Shard \Shard\ (sh[aum]rd), n. [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[eth]. See Shear,
   and cf. Sherd.] [Written also sheard, and sherd.]
   1. A piece or fragment of an earthen vessel, or a like
      brittle substance, as the shell of an egg or snail.
      --Shak.
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            The precious dish
            Broke into shards of beauty on the board. --E.
                                                  Arnold.
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   2. (Zool.) The hard wing case of a beetle.
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            They are his shards, and he their beetle. --Shak.
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   3. A gap in a fence. [Obs.] --Stanyhurst.
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   4. A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] --Spenser.
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Thesaurus Results for Shard:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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