Definition of shadow

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Shadow (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.

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Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
Ingress :: Ingress (n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc..
Overshadow :: Overshadow (v. t.) Fig.: To cover with a superior influence.
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..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal..
Sunlight :: Sunless (a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.
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..
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..
Overshadowing :: Overshadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshado.
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)..
Sciomancy :: Sciomancy (n.) Divination by means of shadows.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.
Shade :: Shade (n.) Shadow.
Umbratical :: Umbratical (a.) Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired.
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim..
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..
Overshade :: Overshade (v. t.) To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type..
Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading..
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