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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.

noun

Shadowing n.

1.

Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading.

2.

A faint representation; an adumbration. "There are... in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity."

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Etymology of 'Shadowing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shadowing" Quotes from Famous Books

... using any of those opprobrious terms! To spare the grossness of the names, and to do the thing yet more severely, is to draw a full face, and to make the nose and cheeks stand out, and yet not to employ any depth of shadowing. This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice; neither is it true, that this fineness of raillery is offensive. ...

— A Voyage to the Moon • George Tucker

... is generally a fine wood-cut, among our printed books, is evidently a remains or imitation of these ornaments.[32] Among the very earliest books printed, which were religious, the Poor Man's Bible has wooden cuts in a coarse style, without the least shadowing or crossing of strokes, and these they inelegantly daubed over with broad colours, which they termed illuminating, and sold at a cheap rate to those who could not afford to purchase costly missals elegantly written and painted on vellum. Specimens of these rude efforts ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... weight had been lifted from her shoulders—for a moment. She began to understand that half the pleasure she had taken in her hours with Moss and Humiston lay in the freedom from her husband's over-shadowing presence. He was not a man to be ignored, as she had seen wives ignore and put aside their meek partners. Marshall Haney even yet was a dominating personality, even though his family affairs were so insistent ...

— Money Magic - A Novel • Hamlin Garland

... stood budding there, Abundant with its twelvefold fruits; Eternal sap sustains its roots, Its shadowing branches fill the air. Its leaves are healing for the world, Its fruit the hungry world can feed, 30 Sweeter than honey to ...

— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti

... show the purpose to which these houses are dedicated, and superstition is here exhibited in its most revolting aspect, for there is no illusion to cheat the fancy—no beautiful sequestered pagoda, with its shadowing trees and flower-strewed courts, to excite poetical ideas—all being coarse, vulgar, ...

— Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay • Miss Emma Roberts

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