Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a plane and represtnting the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as the shadow of a man, of a tree or a tower. The shadow of the earth in in an eclipse of the moon is proof of its sphericity.

Darkness; shade; obscurity. Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise. Denham.

Shelter made by any thing that intercepts the light, heat or influence of the air. In secret shadow from the sunny ray, On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid. Soenser.

Obscure place; secluded retreat. To secret shadows I retire. Dryden.

Dark part of a picture. Obs.

A spirit; a ghost. Obs.

In painting, the representation of a real shadow.

An imperfect and faint representation; opposed to substance. The law of having a shadow of good things to come. Hebrews 10:1.

Inseparable companion. Sin and her shadowMilton.

Type; mystical representaion. Types and shadows of that destin’d seed. Milton.

Protection; shelter; favor.

Slight or faint appearance. Shadow of death, terrible darkness, trouble or death.

To overspread with obscurity. The warlike elf much wonder’d at this tree . So fair and great, that shadow’d all the ground. Spenser.

To cloud; to darken. The shadow’d livery of the burning sun.

To make cool; to refresh by shade; or to shade. Flowery fields and shadowed waters.

To conceal; to hide; to screen. Let every soldier hew him down a bough, And bear’t before him; thereby shall we shadow . The number of our host. Shak.

To protect; to screen from danger; to shroud. Shadowing their right under your wings of war.

To mark with slight gradations of color or light.

to paint in obscure colors; as void spaces deeply shadowed.

To represent faintly or imperfectly. Augustus is shadowed in the person of AEneas. Dryden .