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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..

Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.

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.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.

Signal :: Signal (n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.

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

Amphiscians :: Amphiscians (n. pl.) The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith..

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)..

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

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..

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

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

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..

Overshadow :: Overshadow (v. t.) To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure..

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

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

Bode :: Bode (n.) An omen; a foreshadowing.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.

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

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..

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