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Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) A faint representation; an adumbration.

Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading..

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

Silhouette :: Silhouette (n.) A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be..

Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..

Umbratical :: Umbratical (a.) Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired.

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..

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..

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

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..

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

Signal :: Signal (n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

Ghost :: Ghost (n.) Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea..

Baroscope :: Baroscope (n.) Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of the atmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquid holding in suspension some substance which rises and falls with atmospheric changes..

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..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.

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

Umbrate :: Umbrate (v. t.) To shade; to shadow; to foreshadow.

Sciomachy :: Sciomachy (n.) A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.

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