misshading

English

Verb

misshading

1. present participle and gerund of misshade

Noun

misshading (countable and uncountable, plural misshadings)

1. An instance of misshading
   • 1865, Richard Miller Devens, Cyclopaedia of Commercial and Business Anecdotes, page 608:

     Nor can we do better than to borrow the portrait of this sui-generis eccentricity which we find hanging up on the walls of the Knickerbocker -– drawn by one of its most skilful artists, with only one or two misshadings of the pencil

   • 1971, United States. National Labor Relations Board, Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board, page 889:

     The credited testimony of Borden shows that Adams on October 12 prewarned him about the discharge and told him that the ground for the discharge would be the misshading of materials ( i.e. selecting materials for manufacture into a batch of shirts which were not of matching shades).

   • 1976, Quintessence International, Dental Digest - Volume 7, Issues 10-12:

     Eliminates traditional causes of misshading.