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Definition of shadow

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Shadow (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1..

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Sciomancy :: Sciomancy (n.) Divination by means of shadows.

Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically..

Accidental :: Accidental (n.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

Heteroscian :: Heteroscian (n.) One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward)..

Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..

Sunlight :: Sunless (a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.

Overshadowing :: Overshadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshado.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1..

Foreshadow :: Foreshadow (v. t.) To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water..

Shadowiness :: Shadowiness (n.) The quality or state of being shadowy.

Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage..

Overshade :: Overshade (v. t.) To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.

Shadowed :: Shadowed (imp. & p. p.) of Shado.

Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..

Periscii :: Periscii (n. pl.) Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass..

Umbratical :: Umbratical (a.) Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired.