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Penumbra :: Penumbra (n.) The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type..

Sky :: Sky (n.) Hence, a shadow..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.

Antiscii :: Antiscii (n. pl.) The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions..

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

Umbrate :: Umbrate (v. t.) To shade; to shadow; to foreshadow.

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

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

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..

Overshadower :: Overshadower (n.) One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything..

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

Ascians :: Ascians (n. pl.) Persons who, at certain times of the year, have no shadow at noon; -- applied to the inhabitants of the torrid zone, who have, twice a year, a vertical sun..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.

Dial :: Dial (n.) An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical..

Shadowing :: Shadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shado.

Cloud :: Cloud (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect..

Sundog :: Sundial (n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate..

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

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..

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