Definition of shadow

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Shadow (n.) A small degree; a shade.

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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..
Intensifier :: Intensifier (n.) One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture..
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor..
Shadowish :: Shadowish (a.) Shadowy; vague.
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
Overshade :: Overshade (v. t.) To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.
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..
Shade :: Shade (n.) Shadow.
Body :: Body (n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow..
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..
Umbrate :: Umbrate (v. t.) To shade; to shadow; to foreshadow.
Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.
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)..
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
Overshadow :: Overshadow (v. t.) To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure..
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..
Overshadower :: Overshadower (n.) One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything..
Stile :: Stile (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style..
Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage..
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