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

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

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

Stile :: Stile (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style..

Sundog :: Sundial (n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate..

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

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..

Overshadower :: Overshadower (n.) One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything..

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..

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..

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..

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

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

Disshadow :: Disshadow (v. t.) To free from shadow or shade.

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

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

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.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.

Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..

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..

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