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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..

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

Transit :: Transit (n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary..

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

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)..

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

Anthelion :: Anthelion (n.) A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank..

Shadowiness :: Shadowiness (n.) The quality or state of being shadowy.

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

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

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..

Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To overshadow; to shade.

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