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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Adumbrant :: Adumbrant (a.) Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth..
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..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
Bode :: Bode (n.) An omen; a foreshadowing.
Sundog :: Sundial (n.) An instrument to show the time of day by means of the shadow of a gnomon, or style, on a plate..
Shadowiness :: Shadowiness (n.) The quality or state of being shadowy.
Immersion :: Immersion (n.) The dissapearance of a celestail body, by passing either behind another, as in the occultation of a star, or into its shadow, as in the eclipse of a satellite; -- opposed to emersion..
Amphiscians :: Amphiscians (n. pl.) The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith..
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..
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
Periscian :: Periscian (a.) Having the shadow moving all around.
Relief :: Relief (n.) The appearance of projection given by shading, shadow, etc., to any figure..
Schade :: Schade (n.) Shade; shadow.
Style :: Style (v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon..
Quadrat :: Quadrat (n.) An old instrument used for taking altitudes; -- called also geometrical square, and line of shadows..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
Stile :: Stile (n.) A pin set on the face of a dial, to cast a shadow; a style. See Style..
Shadow :: Shadow (n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.
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