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Catachresis :: Catachresis (n.) A figure by which one word is wrongly put for another, or by which a word is wrested from its true signification; as, To take arms against a sea of troubles. Shak. Her voice was but the shadow of a sound. Young..

Gnomon :: Gnomon (n.) A style or column erected perpendicularly to the horizon, formerly used in astronomocal observations. Its principal use was to find the altitude of the sun by measuring the length of its shadow..

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

Shadowiness :: Shadowiness (n.) The quality or state of being shadowy.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity.

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

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

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

Blot :: Blot (v. t.) To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

Cloud :: Cloud (n.) That which has a dark, lowering, or threatening aspect; that which temporarily overshadows, obscures, or depresses; as, a cloud of sorrow; a cloud of war; a cloud upon the intellect..

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..

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

Style :: Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon..

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

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..

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..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type..

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

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..

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

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