Definition of shadow

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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..

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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..
Periscian :: Periscian (a.) Having the shadow moving all around.
Bode :: Bode (n.) An omen; a foreshadowing.
Signal :: Signal (n.) A token; an indication; a foreshadowing; a sign.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.
Stile :: Stile (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style..
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.
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1..
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
Sciagraphy :: Sciagraphy (n.) The art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature.
Penumbra :: Penumbra (n.) An incomplete or partial shadow.
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..
Shadowiness :: Shadowiness (n.) The quality or state of being shadowy.
Foreshadow :: Foreshadow (v. t.) To shadow or typi/y beforehand; to prefigure.
Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..
Overshadowy :: Overshadowy (a.) Overshadowing.
Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To overshadow; to shade.
Body :: Body (n.) The real, as opposed to the symbolical; the substance, as opposed to the shadow..
Umbrate :: Umbrate (v. t.) To shade; to shadow; to foreshadow.
Adumbrate :: Adumbrate (v. t.) To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth.
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