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Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A small degree; a shade.

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.

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..

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..

Sky :: Sky (n.) Hence, a 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..

Shade :: Shade (n.) Shadow.

Penumbra :: Penumbra (n.) The shadow cast, in an eclipse, where the light is partly, but not wholly, cut off by the intervening body; the space of partial illumination between the umbra, or perfect shadow, on all sides, and the full light..

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

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

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

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

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.) Darkness; shade; obscurity.

Phantasm :: Phantasm (n.) An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream..

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

Overshadowed :: Overshadowed (imp. & p. p.) of Overshado.

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

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

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