shed

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A small structure, either freestanding or attached to a larger structure, serving for storage or shelter.
• noun A large low structure often open on all sides.
• intransitive verb To have (a growth or covering) be disconnected or fall off by a natural process.
• intransitive verb To rid oneself of (something not wanted or needed).
• intransitive verb To take off (an article of clothing).
• intransitive verb To produce and release (a tear or tears).
• intransitive verb Archaic To pour forth.
• intransitive verb To repel without allowing penetration.
• intransitive verb To diffuse or radiate; send forth or impart.
• intransitive verb To lose a natural growth or covering by natural process.
• noun An elevation in the earth's surface from which water flows in two directions; a watershed.
• noun Something, such as an exoskeleton or outer skin, that has been shed or sloughed.
• noun The space made by raising certain warp threads on a loom and lowering others, allowing the woof to be passed between them.
• idiom (shed blood) To wound or kill in a violent manner.
• idiom (shed blood) To be wounded or killed.
• idiom (shed (someone's) blood) To wound someone or take someone's life, especially with violence.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To part; separate; divide: as, to shed the hair.
• To throw off.
• To molt, cast, or exuviate, as a quadruped its hair, a bird its feathers, a crab its shell, a snake its skin, or a deer its antlers.
• To throw or cause to flow off without penetrating, as a roof or covering of oil-cloth, or the like.
• To scatter about or abroad; disperse; diffuse: as, to shed light on a subject.
• To sprinkle; intersperse.
• To let or cause to flow out; let fall; pour out; spill: used especially in regard to blood and tears: as, to shed blood; to shed tears of joy.
• To cast, part with, or let fall a covering, vestment, envelop, or seed; molt; lose, cast, throw off, or exuviate a covering: as, the bird sheds in August; the crab sheds in June.
• To be let fall; pour or be poured; be spilled.
• noun A division or parting: as, the shed of the hair (obsolete or provincial); a water-shed.
• noun In weaving, a parting or opening between sets of warp-threads in a loom, made by the action of the heddles, or by the Jacquard attachment, for the passage of the shuttle and the weft-thread.
• noun The slope of land or of a hill: as, which way is the shed?
• noun The parting of the hair; hence, the top of the head; temples.
• To fall prematurely, as the young bolls of cotton-plants do when affected by certain functional disorders. The disease is known as shedding.
• noun A slight or temporary shelter; a penthouse or lean-to; hence, an outhouse; a hut or mean dwelling: as, a snow-shed; a wood-shed.
• noun A large open structure for the temporary storage of goods, vehicles, etc.: as, a shed on a wharf; a railway-shed; an engine-shed.
• noun A sheet.
• To place in a shed; protect by means of a shed.
• noun The smolt, or young salmon of the first year.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A slight or temporary structure built to shade or shelter something; a structure often open in front; an outbuilding; a hut.
• noun (Aëronautics) A covered structure for housing aircraft; a hangar.
• transitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To separate; to divide.
• transitive verb To part with; to throw off or give forth from one's self; to emit; to diffuse; to cause to emanate or flow; to pour forth or out; to spill.
• transitive verb To let fall; to throw off, as a natural covering of hair, feathers, shell; to cast.
• transitive verb To cause to flow off without penetrating.
• transitive verb rare To sprinkle; to intersperse; to cover.
• transitive verb (Weaving) To divide, as the warp threads, so as to form a shed, or passageway, for the shuttle.
• intransitive verb obsolete To fall in drops; to pour.
• intransitive verb To let fall the parts, as seeds or fruit; to throw off a covering or envelope.
• noun Obs. or Prov. Eng. A parting; a separation; a division.
• noun The act of shedding or spilling; -- used only in composition, as in bloodshed.
• noun That which parts, divides, or sheds; -- used in composition, as in watershed.