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12. Anything unsubstantial or unreal, though 
having the deceptive appearance of reality; an 
image produced by the imagination. 
Shadows to-night 
Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard 
Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers. 
Shak., Rich. III., v. 3. 216. 
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue ! 
Burke, Speech at Bristol, Sept. 9, 1780. 
13. A phantom; a shade; a spirit; a ghost. 
Then came wandering by 
A shadow like an angel. 
Shak., Rich. III., i. 4. 53. wa tch secretly and continuously : as, to shadow 
Are ye alive? or wandering shadows, a criminal. [Colloq.] 
lotl Mud'l7s 6arth "" >e rCTeal Shadow-bird (shadV-berd;, ,,. The African 
Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, i. 3. umbre, umbrette, or hammerhead, Scopus um- 
14. A shaded or shady spot or place; an ob- bretto. See cut under Scopus. 
scure, secluded, or quiet retreat. Shadowed (shad od), p. <i. In her., same as 
In secret shadow from the sunny ray 
On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid. Spenser. ShadOW-ngUre (shad O-ng"ur), II. A silhouette. 
The tlere draw to the dale, 
And leve the liilles bee, 
And nfittdutc hem in the leves grene, 
Vndur the grene-wode tre. 
Robin Hood and the Monk (Child's Ballads, V. 1). 
They seek out all shifts that can be, for a time, to shad- 
ow their self-love and their own selves. 
J. Bradford, Works (Parker Soc., 1853), II. 351. 
Let every soldier hew him down a bough, 
And bear 't before him : thereby shall we shadow 
The numbers of our host. Shak., Macbeth, v. 4. 5. 
6. To attend closely, like a shadow; follow 
about closely in a secret or unobserved manner : 
Raising Water by Shadoofs. 
also to Gr. o/ua, shade, shadow, an?/vt/, a tent 
(> E. scene), Skt. chhmja, shade, etc. Hence 
the later form shade 1 , q. v.] 1. The fainter 
light and coolness caused by the interruption 
or interception of the rays of light and heat 
from the sun; shade. 
Vnder a tri appeltre . . . 
That was braunched ful Ijrode & bar gret schadue. 
William ofPalerne(E. E. T. 8.), 1. 754. 
And for further beautie, besides commoditie of shadow, 
they plant trees at their dores, which continue greene all 
the yeare long. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 43. 
2. pi. Same as shade 1 , 3. 
Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise. 
Sir J. Denham, Destruction of Troy. 
3. Shade within defined limits; the dark figure 
or image projected by a body when it inter- 
cepts the light. In optics shadow may be defined as 
a portion of space from which light is shut off by an 
opaque body. Every opaque object on which light falls 
is accompanied with a shadow on the side opposite to the 
luminous body, and the shadow appears more intense in 
proportion as the illumination is stronger. An opaque 
object illuminated by the sun, or any other source of light 
which is not a single point, must have an infinite number 
of shadows, though these are not distinguishable from each 
other, and hence the shadow of such an opaque body re- 
ceived on a plane is always accompanied by a penumbra, 
or partial shadow, the complete shadow being called the 
umbra. See penumbra. . 
There is another Hille, that is clept Athos, that is so 
highe that the Schadewe of hytn rechethe to Lempne 
that Is an He. Mandeville, Travels, p. IB. 
The shadow sits close to the flying ball. 
Emerson, Woodnotes, ii. 
4. Anything which follows or attends a person 
or thing like a shadow; an inseparable com- 
panion. 
Sin and her shadow, Death. Stilton, P. L., ix. 12. 
5f. An uninvited guest introduced to a feast 
by one who is invited: a translation of the 
Latin umbra. 
I must not have my board pester'd with shadows, 
That under other men's protection break in 
Without invitement. 
Massinger, Unnatural Combat, ill. 1. 
6. A reflected image, as in a mirror or in 
water; hence, any image or portrait. 
Harcissus so himself himself forsook, 
And died to kiss his shadow in the brook. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 182. 
TheBasutos . . . think that, if a man walks on the river 
bank, a crocodile may seize his shadow in the water and 
draw him in. E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 388. 
7. The dark part of a picture ; shade ; repre- 
sentation of comparative deficiency or absence 
of light. 
Take such advantageous lights, that after great lights 
great shadows may succeed. 
Dryden, tr. of Dufresnoy's Art of Painting. 
8. Type; mystical representation. Compare 
eidolon &n& paradigm. 
Types 
And shadows of that destined seed to bruise. 
Milton, P. L., xii. 233. 
9. An imperfect and faint representation; 
adumbration ; a prefiguratiou ; a foreshowing ; 
a dim bodying forth. . 
The law having a shadow of good things to come, and 
not the very image of the things, can never with those 
sacrifices which they offered year by year continually 
make the comers thereunto perfect. Heb. x. 1. 
In the glorious lights of heaven we perceive a shadow 
of his divine countenance. Raleigh. 
10. The faintest trace; a slight or faint ap- 
pearance : as, without a shadow of doubt. 1 1 . 
Disguise; pretext; subterfuge. 
Their [the priests'] teaching is but a lest and shadow to 
get money. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 915. 
Ill go find a shadow, and sigh till he come. 
Shak., As you Like it, iv. 1. 222. 
15. Shade; retirement; privacy; quiet; rest. 
Men cannot retire when they would, neither will they snadow-honspt (shad'o hoiisl 
when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, s " <iaow nusei IS), 
The shadow-figures sold this winter by one of my in- 
formants were of Mr. and Mrs. Manning, the Queen, 
Prince Albert, the Princess Royal, and the Prince of Wales. 
Mai/hew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 311. 
A summer- 
even in age and sickness, which require the shadow. 
Bacon, Of Great Place (ed. 1887). 
16. Shelter; cover; protection; security. 
One garden, summer, or shadowe house covered with 
blue slate, handsomely benched and waynscotted in parte. 
Archjfoloyia, X. 419. (Dames.) 
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High ,, --i__j , \ A>- au j 
shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Ps. xci 1. SnadOWineSS (shad o-l-lies), n. Shadowy or 
I doubt not but your honours will as well accept of this unsubstantial character or quality, 
as of the rest, & Patronize it under the shadow of your Shadowing (shad o-ing), . [< ME. shadoiriinj ; 
most noble vertues. Capt. John Smith, True Travels, Ded. verbal n. of shadow.'] If. Shade. 
17t. That which shades, shelters, or protects, 
as from light or heat; specifically, a sunshade, 
a parasol, or a wide-brimmed hat for women. 
Item, for a cale and shadoe 4 Sh. 
Wardship of Richard Fennor (1580). 
They [Tallipoies] haue a skin of leather hanging on a 
string about their neckes, whereon they sit bare-headed 
and bare-footed, with their right armes bare, and a broad 
Sombrero or shadow in their hands, to defend them in Sum- 
mer from the Sunne, and in Winter from the raine. ahadnwish CshaH'o ih) n 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 460. SnaQOWlSfl (Ml a o-isn), a. 
Xarcisus, shortly to telle, 
By aventure com to that welle 
To resten hym in that shadowing. 
Rom. of the Rose, 1. 1503. 
2. Shading; gradation of light and shade ; also, 
the art of representing such gradations. 
More broken scene made up of an infinite variety of in- 
equalities and shadowing* that naturally arise from an 
agreeable mixture of hills, groves, and valleys. Addison. 
[(shadow + -is/fi.] 
, bhadowy. [Rare.] 
IB. A light four-cornered sail used bv vachts 
:_ *:_, . * * Men will answer, as some have done, "that, touching 
m tair winds. It has a special gaff, and is set on the the Jews, first their religion was of far less perfection and 
foremast of schooners and on the mainmast of cutters dignity than ours is, ours being that truth whereof theirs 
and sloops. waa Dut a giutd,,,^ preflgurative resemblance." 
19. In cntom., a very slight and undefined dark- Ilooker, Eccles. Polity, VIII. iii. 1. 
er color on a light ground, as on the wings of shadowless (shad'o-les), a. [< shadow + -less.] 
Lenia.vptcra. Earthquake-shadow. See earthquake. Having no shadow; hence, weird; supernatural. 
Line of shadows. Same as quadrat, 2. Shadow of 
death, approach of death or dire calamity ; terrible dark- 
ness. Job iii. 5.; Ps. xxiii. 4. = Syn, 3. Seeshadei. 
Shadow (shad'6), v. t. [< ME. sliadwen, schadow- 
en, schadeweii (Kentish ssedwi), < 
wian, scadeician = OS. skadoian, skadowan = D. 
schaduwen = OLG. scadowan = OHG. scatetcen, 
MHG. schalewen, G. iiberschatten = Goth, skad- 
wjan (in comp. itfar-skadivjan, overshadow) ; 
She [the nurse] had a large assortment of fairies and 
shadowless witches and banshees. 
Miss Edgeworth, Ennui, iii. 
AS. scead- shadow-stitch (shad'6-stich), n. In lace-mak- 
ing, a mode of using the bobbins so as to pro- 
duce delicate openwork borderings and the 
like, the thread crossing from one solid part 
of the pattern to another in a sort of ladder- 
stitch. 
from the noun. Cf. shade 1 , t\] 1. To cover 
or overspread with shade; throw into shade; shadow-test (shad'6-test), n. Same as skias- 
cast a shadow over; shade. 
With grene trees shadwed was his place. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 607. 
The warlike Elfe much wondred at this tree, 
So fayre and great, that shadowed all the ground. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 56. 
As the tree 
Stands in the sun and shadows all beneath, 
So in the light of great eternity 
Life eminent creates the shade of death. 
Tennyson, Love and Death. 
2. To darken ; cloud ; obscure ; bedim ; tarnish. 
Mislike me not for my complexion, 
The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun, 
To whom I am a neighbour and near bred. 
Shak., M. of V., ii. 1. 2. 
Yet further for my paines to discredit me, and my call- 
ing it New-England, they obscured it and shadowed it with 
the title of Cannada. 
cow. 
Shadow-vane (shad'6-van), n. The part of a 
back-staff which received the shadow, and so 
indicated the direction of the sun. 
shadowy (shad'o-i), a. [< ME. sliadewy; < shad- 
ow + -y^. Cf. shady.'] 1. Full of. causing, or 
affording shadow or shade ; shady ; hence, dark ; 
gloomy. 
Of all these bounds, even from this line to this, 
With shadmvy forests and with champains rich'd. 
With plenteous rivers and wide-skirted meads, 
We make thee lady. Shak., Lear, i. 1. 65. 
The close confines of a shadowy vale. 
Wordsworth, Evening Voluntaries, xiii. 
2. Faintly representative ; typical. 
Those shadowy expiations weak, 
The blood of bulls and goats. 
Milton, P. L., xii. 291. 
3. Like a shadow; hence, ghostlike; unsub- 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 262. 
3. To mark with or represent by shading; mark stantial; unreal; obscure; (Tim. 
with slight gradations of color or light; shade; 
darken slightly. 
If the parts be too much distant, ... so that there he 
void spaces which are deeply shadomd, we are then to 
take occasion to place in those voids some fold, to make 
a joining of the parts. 
His [the goblin's] shadowy flail hath thresh'd the corn 
That ten day-labourers could not end. 
Milton, L'Allegro, 1. 108. 
And summon from the shadowy Past 
The forms that once have been. 
Longfellow, A Gleam of Sunshine. 
Drydentv. of Dufresnoy's Art of Painting, xxii. 4 Indulging in fancies or dreamy imagina- 
n r(l xlittiln'ii} I'MrntiHnna onil ol] vulliuira f.' v 
It is good to shadow 
ns, and all yellows. 
Peacham. 
4. To represent in a shadowy or figurative way ; 
hence, to betoken; typify; foreshow: some- 
times with forth or out. 
The next figure [on a medal] shadow's out Eternity to us, 
by the sun in one hand and the moon in the other. 
Addison, Dialogues on Medals, ii. 
tions. 
Wherefore those dim looks of thine, 
Shadowy, dreaming Adeline? 
Tennyson, Adeline. 
shad-salmon (shad'sam"un). ii. A coregonoid 
fish, Coregonus clupeiformis, the so-called fresh- 
water herring of the Great Lakes of North 
America. See cut under whitefish. 
The tales of fairy-spiriting may shadow a lamentable shad-seine (shad'san), n. See'seine 
Lamb, chimney-sweepers. s h a d-spirit (shad'spir'it), n. The common 
5. lo shelter; screen; hide; conceal; dis- American snipe, Gallinago irilsoni ; the shad- 
guise. 
bird. See snipe, and cut under CaUinago. 
