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Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.

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

Sciagraphy :: Sciagraphy (n.) The art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature.

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..

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.

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..

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..

Ingress :: Ingress (n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc..

Gnomon :: Gnomon (n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow..

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

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..

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

Signal :: Signal (n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.

Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) A faint representation; an adumbration.

Disshadow :: Disshadow (v. t.) To free from shadow or shade.

Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion..

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

Overshadowed :: Overshadowed (imp. & p. p.) of Overshado.

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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