Definition of shadow

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Shadow (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically..

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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..
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..
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..
Signal :: Signal (n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.
Penumbra :: Penumbra (n.) An incomplete or partial shadow.
Overshadowing :: Overshadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshado.
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..
Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth..
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..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.
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..
Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage..
Schade :: Schade (n.) Shade; shadow.
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
Bode :: Bode (n.) An omen; a foreshadowing.
Overshadow :: Overshadow (v. t.) Fig.: To cover with a superior influence.
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..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water..
Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
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