Definition of shadow

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

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Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.
Prefigure :: Prefigure (v. t.) To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.
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..
Transit :: Transit (n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary..
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor..
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..
Overshade :: Overshade (v. t.) To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.
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..
Umbratical :: Umbratical (a.) Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired.
Umbrate :: Umbrate (v. t.) To shade; to shadow; to foreshadow.
Relief :: Relief (n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure..
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
Overgloom :: Overgloom (v. t.) To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower..
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..
Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) The feeling of being overshadowed; jealousy of another, as standing in one's light or way; hence, suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
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..
Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) A faint representation; an adumbration.
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