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

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.

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

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

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

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..

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..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.

Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.

Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading..

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..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.

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

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..

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 conceal; to hide; to screen.

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

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

Periscian :: Periscian (a.) Having the shadow moving all around.

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