Definition of shadow

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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..

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Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
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..
Style :: Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon..
Shadowiness :: Shadowiness (n.) The quality or state of being shadowy.
Overshadowing :: Overshadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshado.
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
Portentous :: Portentous (a.) Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous..
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical..
Overshadowed :: Overshadowed (imp. & p. p.) of Overshado.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type..
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..
Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) The feeling of being overshadowed; jealousy of another, as standing in one's light or way; hence, suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment..
Ingress :: Ingress (n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc..
Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..
Overshade :: Overshade (v. t.) To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.
Body :: Body (n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow..
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)..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A small degree; a shade.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.
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