Definition of shadow

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

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Overgloom :: Overgloom (v. t.) To spread gloom over; to make gloomy; to overshadow.
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)..
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..
Sunlight :: Sunless (a.) Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.
Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading..
Shadowiness :: Shadowiness (n.) The quality or state of being shadowy.
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical..
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..
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..
Shadowing :: Shadowing (n.) A faint representation; an adumbration.
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..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
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..
Body :: Body (n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow..
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
Overshadowing :: Overshadowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Overshado.
Portentive :: Portentive (a.) Presaging; foreshadowing.
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