Shade (?), v. i. [See Shade, n.] To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes; -- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off.
This small group will be most conveniently treated with the emotional division, into which it shades.
Edmund Gurney.
{ ||Shai"tan, ||Shei"tan } (?), n. [Written also sheytan.] [Hind. shaitn, fr. Ar. shain.] 1. Among Mohammedans: (a) An evil spirit; the evil one; the devil. (b) One of bad disposition; a fiend. [Colloq.]