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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Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.
Schade :: Schade (n.) Shade; shadow.
Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.
Overshadow :: Overshadow (v. t.) Fig.: To cover with a superior influence.
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..
Signal :: Signal (n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
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..
Sky :: Sky (n.) Hence, a shadow..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
Overshadowed :: Overshadowed (imp. & p. p.) of Overshado.
Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading..
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..
Transit :: Transit (n.) The passage of a smaller body across the disk of a larger, as of Venus across the sun's disk, or of a satellite or its shadow across the disk of its primary..
Umbratical :: Umbratical (a.) Of or pertaining to the shade or darkness; shadowy; unreal; secluded; retired.
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor..
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..
Body :: Body (n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow..
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..
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..
Periscian :: Periscian (a.) Having the shadow moving all around.
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