Definition of shadow

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

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Portentous :: Portentous (a.) Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreshadowing, esp. foreshadowing ill; ominous..
Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
Stile :: Stile (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style..
Shadowish :: Shadowish (a.) Shadowy; vague.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
Shade :: Shade (n.) Shadow.
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..
Shadowless :: Shadowless (a.) Having no shadow.
Ingress :: Ingress (n.) The entrance of the moon into the shadow of the earth in eclipses, the sun's entrance into a sign, etc..
Prefigure :: Prefigure (v. t.) To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types and similitudes; to foreshadow..
Overshade :: Overshade (v. t.) To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.
Sciomachy :: Sciomachy (n.) A fighting with a shadow; a mock contest; an imaginary or futile combat.
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..
Gnomon :: Gnomon (n.) The style or pin, which by its shadow, shows the hour of the day. It is usually set parallel to the earth's axis..
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..
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.
Overshadower :: Overshadower (n.) One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything..
Signal :: Signal (n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
Sundog :: Sundial (n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate..
Disshadow :: Disshadow (v. t.) To free from shadow or shade.
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