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Sundog :: Sundial (n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.

Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.

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

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..

Sky :: Sky (n.) Hence, a shadow..

Periscii :: Periscii (n. pl.) Those who live within a polar circle, whose shadows, during some summer days, will move entirely round, falling toward every point of the compass..

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

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..

Stile :: Stile (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style..

Disshadow :: Disshadow (v. t.) To free from shadow or shade.

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

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..

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.) A small degree; a shade.

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..

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

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