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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..

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..

Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) Shade; shadow; obscurity; hence, that which affords a shade, as a screen of trees or foliage..

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

Accidental :: Accidental (n.) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

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

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

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

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

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

Relief :: Relief (n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure..

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

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal..

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.

Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.

Umbrage :: Umbrage (n.) The feeling of being overshadowed; jealousy of another, as standing in one's light or way; hence, suspicion of injury or wrong; offense; resentment..

Sciomancy :: Sciomancy (n.) Divination by means of shadows.

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

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

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

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