6. To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.
Shak.
Why sad?
I must not see the face O love thus shadowed.
Beau. & Fl. 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.
Shadowiness
(Shad"ow*i*ness) n. The quality or state of being shadowy.
Shadowing
(Shad"ow*ing), n.
1. Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading. Feltham.
2. A faint representation; an adumbration.
There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme
Deity.
Tylor. Shadowish
(Shad"ow*ish), a. Shadowy; vague. [Obs.] Hooker.
Shadowless
(Shad"ow*less), a. Having no shadow.
Shadowy
(Shad"ow*y) a.
1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton.
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods.
Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow.
3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
The moon . . . with more pleasing light,
Shadowy sets off the face things.
Milton. 4. Faintly representative; hence, typical.
From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit.
Milton. 5. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy
and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin
and Death.
Addison. Shadrach
(Sha"drach) n. (Metal.) A mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its
intended effect; — so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from
the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)
Shad-spirit
(Shad"-spir`it) n. See Shadbird (a)
Shad-waiter
(Shad"-wait`er) n. (Zoöl.) A lake whitefish; the roundfish. See Roundfish.
