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Body :: Body (n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow..

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..

Bode :: Bode (n.) An omen; a foreshadowing.

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

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

Overshadow :: Overshadow (v. t.) Fig.: To cover with a superior influence.

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

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

Penumbra :: Penumbra (n.) An incomplete or partial shadow.

Periscian :: Periscian (a.) Having the shadow moving all around.

Umbra :: Umbra (n.) The conical shadow projected from a planet or satellite, on the side opposite to the sun, within which a spectator could see no portion of the sun's disk; -- used in contradistinction from penumbra. See Penumbra..

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..

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..

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

Relief :: Relief (n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure..

Emersion :: Emersion (n.) The reappearance of a heavenly body after an eclipse or occultation; as, the emersion of the moon from the shadow of the earth; the emersion of a star from behind the moon..

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..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.

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

Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading..

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