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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..

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

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)..

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..

Umbrate :: Umbrate (v. t.) To shade; to shadow; to foreshadow.

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

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

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical..

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim..

Accidental :: Accidental (n.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

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

Sciagraphy :: Sciagraphy (n.) The art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature.

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

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..

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

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

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type..

Gnomon :: Gnomon (n.) The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis..

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

Sciomancy :: Sciomancy (n.) Divination by means of shadows.

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