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Shadow   /ʃˈædˌoʊ/   Listen
noun
Shadow  n.  
1.
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.
2.
Darkness; shade; obscurity. "Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise."
3.
A shaded place; shelter; protection; security. "In secret shadow from the sunny ray, On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid."
4.
A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
5.
That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower. "Sin and her shadow Death."
6.
A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. "Hence, horrible shadow!"
7.
An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type. "The law having a shadow of good things to come." "(Types) and shadows of that destined seed."
8.
A small degree; a shade. "No variableness, neither shadow of turning."
9.
An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. (A Latinism) "I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement."
Shadow of death, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death.


verb
Shadow  v. t.  (past & past part. shadowed; pres. part. shadowing)  
1.
To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity. "The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground."
2.
To conceal; to hide; to screen. (R.) "Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host."
3.
To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. "Shadowing their right under your wings of war."
4.
To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
5.
To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. "Augustus is shadowed in the person of AEneas."
6.
To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. "The shadowed livery of the burnished sun." "Why sad? I must not see the face O love thus shadowed."
7.
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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"Shadow" Quotes from Famous Books



... pomegranates on the southern slopes, to the misty level land that melts into the sea, with churches and tall campanili like gigantic galleys setting sail for fairyland over 'the foam of perilous seas forlorn.' Let a blue-black shadow from a thunder-cloud be cast upon this plain, and let one ray of sunlight strike a solitary bell-tower;—it burns with palest flame of rose against the steely dark, and in its slender shaft and shell-like tint of pink ...
— Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete - Series I, II, and III • John Symonds
... the summit reaching, stood To view another gap, within the round Of Malebolge, other bootless pangs. Marvellous darkness shadow'd o'er the place. In the Venetians' arsenal as boils Through wintry months tenacious pitch, to smear Their unsound vessels in the wintry clime. * * * * * So, not by force of fire but art divine, Boil'd here a glutinous ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine -- Volume 57, No. 351, January 1845 • Various
... soliloquy perhaps wearies you; it is ended. Let us sail for an hour or so on the silver wave; my new pleasure-boat is rocking here beneath in the shadow of the oak. She is built for speed. See how gracefully she falls and rises, like a variegated leaf upon the waves—how the slender prow curves upward—how the gaily-colored sides are mirrored in the limpid surface of the joyous ...
— Gifts of Genius - A Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors • Various
... garden I saw a light in one of the rooms down-stairs and other lights, passing the windows of the upper storey. From the situation of the lower room down-stairs I suspected that it must be the drawing-room or one of the sitting-rooms, and, halting my men under the shadow of a shrubbery, with directions to remain there till I summoned them, I approached the window for the purpose of trying if I could see any of the people within. There were two windows to the room. The blind ...
— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston
... but to them it would all seem different. The journey was short, too short for a man who knew it was his last! Then when they reached the Tower the barge would sail on up to the Traitor's Gate, and the dark shadow of the heavy walls would fall on the prisoner, and he would feel a chill at his heart as he stepped out on to those cold ...
— The Children's Book of London • Geraldine Edith Mitton


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