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Definition of shadow

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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..

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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..

Overshade :: Overshade (v. t.) To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.

Sunlight :: Sunless (a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.

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

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.

Relief :: Relief (n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure..

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..

Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.

Shadowish :: Shadowish (a.) Shadowy; vague.

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

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..

Phantasm :: Phantasm (n.) An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream..

Adumbrant :: Adumbrant (a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth..

Overgloom :: Overgloom (v. t.) To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow.

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor..

Foreshadow :: Foreshadow (v. t.) To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.

Prefigure :: Prefigure (v. t.) To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow..

Periscian :: Periscian (a.) Having the shadow moving all around.

Penumbra :: Penumbra (n.) An incomplete or partial 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..