Definition of shadow

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

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Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical..
Relief :: Relief (n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure..
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..
Adumbrant :: Adumbrant (a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth..
Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth..
Anthelion :: Anthelion (n.) A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank..
Body :: Body (n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow..
Shadowiness :: Shadowiness (n.) The quality or state of being shadowy.
Style :: Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
Antiscii :: Antiscii (n. pl.) The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.
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..
Shade :: Shade (v. t.) To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent.
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..
Shadowish :: Shadowish (a.) Shadowy; vague.
Sky :: Sky (n.) Hence, a shadow..
Sunlight :: Sunless (a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.
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..
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