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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



... of getting over difficulties. In reading the New Testament, when we come to a place where we are stopped by something which looks deep and is dark, we are often told, "That darkness is not depth: it is the shadow of a Jewish error ...
— Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors • James Freeman Clarke
... a cloud came over his brow. At first it was but a changing shadow; but it settled into a dark veil of sorrow which obscured all his virtues, and made the worthy senior of his room shake his thin grey locks once and again. He shook them more in sorrow than in anger; for he knew that Macassar was in love, and he ...
— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope
... Engineers humbugged them. Congress consecrates the engineer as number one. Congress had better send a trustful man to Europe, to the continent, and find out what is considered as number one in the science of warfare. But every luminous body throws a shadow; the Academy of Sciences, and this number one, are the shadows thrown by that ...
— Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 • Adam Gurowski
... nerves worthy an hysterical woman, not a man. It was a heavy journey, far heavier than the one when after my return from abroad I went the first time to Ploszow. I was reflecting upon that terrible incapacity for life which casts its shadow upon my existence and the existence of those like me, and came to the conclusion that its main source is the feminine element which predominates in our character. I do not mean by this that we are physically effeminate or wanting in manly courage. No! it is something quite different. ...
— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... againe with my Lieutenant Ottigni and a number of souldiers to returne toward the Paracoussy of the riuer of May, which of purpose waited for vs in the same place, where the day before we conferred with him. We found him vnder the shadow of an arbour accompanied with fourescore Indians at the least, and apparelled at that time after the Indian fashion, to wit, with a great Harts skinne dressed like Chamois, and painted with deuices of strange and diuers colours, but of so liuely a portrature, and representing ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of - the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. • Richard Hakluyt


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