\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.