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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..

Sciomachy :: Sciomachy (n.) A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.

Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The shadow or outlines of a figure.

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

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..

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)..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower..

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.

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

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

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 mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.

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..

Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading..

Portentous :: Portentous (a.) Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous..

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

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

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.

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..

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