Definitions for: Shard

[n] a broken piece of a brittle artifact

Webster (1913) Definition: Shard (sh[aum]rd), n.
A plant; chard. [Obs.] --Dryden.

Shard, 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.

The precious dish Broke into shards of beauty on the
board. --E. Arnold.

2. (Zo["o]l.) The hard wing case of a beetle.

They are his shards, and he their beetle. --Shak.

3. A gap in a fence. [Obs.] --Stanyhurst.

4. A boundary; a division. [Obs. & R.] --Spenser.

Synonyms: fragment, sherd

See Also: piece, potsherd

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