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Sciagraphy :: Sciagraphy (n.) The art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature.

Overshadowing :: Overshadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshado.

Ingress :: Ingress (n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc..

Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth..

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..

Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.

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..

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

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical..

Portentive :: Portentive (a.) Presaging; foreshadowing.

Penumbra :: Penumbra (n.) The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light..

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

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

Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To overshadow; to shade.

Overshadow :: Overshadow (v. t.) Fig.: To cover with a superior influence.

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..

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..

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..

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

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