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Eclipse :: Eclipse (n.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, thoug

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

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..

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

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

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

Shadowless :: Shadowless (a.) Having no shadow.

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

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water..

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

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

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

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..

Sciomachy :: Sciomachy (n.) A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.

Overshadowy :: Overshadowy (a.) Overshadowing.

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..

Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..

Shadowiness :: Shadowiness (n.) The quality or state of being shadowy.

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

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