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.) Darkness; shade; obscurity.
Stile :: Stile (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style..
Overgloom :: Overgloom (v. t.) To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow.
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..
Style :: Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon..
Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.
Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage..
Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..
Shade :: Shade (n.) Shadow.
Bode :: Bode (n.) An omen; a foreshadowing.
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..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
Shadowing :: Shadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shado.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.
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)..
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
Overshadower :: Overshadower (n.) One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything..
Body :: Body (n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow..
Shadowless :: Shadowless (a.) Having no shadow.
Amphiscians :: Amphiscians (n. pl.) The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith..
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