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Shade :: Shade (n.) Shadow.

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..

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

Foreshadow :: Foreshadow (v. t.) To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

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..

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

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

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..

Overgloom :: Overgloom (v. t.) To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow.

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..

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..

Schade :: Schade (n.) Shade; 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..

Overshadowy :: Overshadowy (a.) Overshadowing.

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)..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.

Overshadowing :: Overshadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshado.

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

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

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

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