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

Body :: Body (n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow..

Antiscii :: Antiscii (n. pl.) The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions..

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

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..

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical..

Eclipse :: Eclipse (n.) An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it. A lunar eclipse is caused by the moon passing through the earth's shadow; a solar eclipse, by the moon coming between the sun and the observer. A satellite is eclipsed by entering the shadow of its primary. The obscuration of a planet or star by the moon or a planet, thoug

Prefigure :: Prefigure (v. t.) To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow..

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

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..

Shade :: Shade (n.) Shadow.

Shadowed :: Shadowed (imp. & p. p.) of Shado.

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..

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

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

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1..

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

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

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

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

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