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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..

Shadowish :: Shadowish (a.) Shadowy; vague.

Stile :: Stile (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style..

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.

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)..

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..

Portentive :: Portentive (a.) Presaging; foreshadowing.

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

Baroscope :: Baroscope (n.) Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes..

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

Gnomonics :: Gnomonics (n.) The art or science of dialing, or of constructing dials to show the hour of the day by the shadow of a gnomon..

Style :: Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon..

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

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

Portentous :: Portentous (a.) Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous..

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

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..

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity.

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..

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