Shadow \Shad"ow\ (sh[a^]d"[-o]), n. [Originally the same word as shade. [root]162. See {Shade}.] 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. --Denham.
3. A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.
In secret shadow from the sunny ray, On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid. --Spenser.
4. A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water. --Shak.
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. --Milton.
6. A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. ``Hence, horrible shadow!'' --Shak.
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. --Heb. x. 1.
[Types] and shadows of that destined seed. --Milton.
8. A small degree; a shade. ``No variableness, neither shadow of turning.'' --James i. 17.
9. An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. [A Latinism] --Nares.
I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement. --Massinger.
{Shadow of death}, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death. --Ps. xxiii. 4.
Shadow \Shad"ow\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shadowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shadowing}.] [OE. shadowen, AS. sceadwian. See {adow}, n.] 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. --Spenser.
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. --Shak.
3. To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
Shadowing their right under your wings of war. --Shak.
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 [AE]neas. --Dryden.
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.
The Blue Arrow affair "undoubtedly has cast a shadow" over County NatWest, said Lord Alexander, who appeared frazzled after a week of crisis.
Worst hit, said shadow social security secretary Michael Meacher, were those not eligible for the full Pounds 140 poll tax deduction because they already received rebates.
Secosky, 42, is interested in why Jupter's moon Io sometimes appears brighter as it emerges from the planet's frigid shadow.
Fort Worth, also in the shadow of Dallas, has survived the oil bust better than Dallas, the magazine said.
Here we're not into all that shadow of the yardarm stuff,' he laughed.
We follow his emergence from Whistler's shadow, the early influence of Degas, and the establishment of a personal and particular imagery of music-hall, artiste and audience.
The road now carries travelers on a rugged five-hour journey in the shadow of the Andes' majestic spine, across the barren and cold altiplano and skirting volcanic cones.
"A deficit of information, piled on top of the invisible shadow of the Chernobyl tragedy and the most complex ecological situation in the region, detonated a powerful explosion of public indignation," the newspaper said.
Twenty-seven presidents, from Martin van Buren to Dwight D. Eisenhower, took the oath of office in their shadow.
Heating oil's recent rally, which previously had been pushing up crude oil prices, had been largely due to the shadow over the world's fuel supplies this winter, given the uncertainties concerning expected oil exports by the Soviet Union.
Spot checks are also made. But for the shadow cast by NME's problems, WHC would have had been able to tell a story any public relations executive would be proud to peddle.
The episode casts yet another shadow over Mr Kravchuk's last year in office.
The Communist Party long has maintained a shadow bureaucracy in government and business, with party officials supervising and frequently taking charge of all decisions.
Mr Smith and Mr Gordon Brown, the shadow chancellor, have plugged away on the theme of broken promises.
Nato ambassadors yesterday rebuffed Moscow's demand for an alternative to the Partnership for Peace arrangement, in a move that casts a shadow over next week's visit to Brussels by General Pavel Grachev, the Russian defence minister.
Part of the entertainment of the evening is to go home and say, `Did you see that guy with the blond wig and spangled eye shadow?"' Bizarre decor and odd locales help set the clubs' anything-can-happen mood.
In other words, Mr. Roth knew what he was doing in 1969 when he did his best to stand in Portnoy's shadow.
To capitalize on this dissent, a former army officer, Col. Hassan Agilipour, recently announced the formation of a shadow government-in-exile in Paris with some links to the military hierarchy in Iran.
"We need a more active U.S. policy toward the East to make this shadow disappear." What seems to be happening is a slow, creeping Western recognition of the Balts.
The problems confronting Avon are similar to those facing many companies that have relied on animals for decades to test products ranging from eye shadow to candy bars.
They did not want Mr Rifkind to have to announce further cuts next year as a result of the annual public spending discussions. Mr David Clark, the shadow defence secretary, renewed Labour demands for a full-scale defence review.
No, not the publicity-hogging Kenneth Clarke, but David Clark, the Labour party's shadow agriculture minister.
Yet another is the message put out by Labour's Mr Tony Blair, the shadow home secretary.
Mr. Nakasone would act as a shadow prime minister, and Mr. Takeshita, a skilled politicial operator, would be able to get approval for difficult policy changes from Japan's legislators and bureaucrats, these accounts say.
But his father later took him to see it on the bank of the Hudson River in the shadow of the George Washington Bridge in upper Manhattan.
To paraphrase the argument in economists' language, all money is indeed fungible, but different constraints on resources can cause different "shadow" prices on income received from the different sources.
It has to be said for the shadow chancellor that his non-solutions are beginning to sound better than they used to, and perhaps better than others on offer. Put this down to political convergence.
Although he holds more titles and wields more power on the organization chart than any other Mobil chief executive in 30 years, Mr. Murray is working his way out of the shadow of two strong predecessors.
The shadow committee was upbeat on the prospects that the economy will be able to avoid a recession this year although the forecast called for economic growth to remain sluggish, reflecting previous credit-tightening on the part of the Federal Reserve.
In one study, Carlotto said, the face was compared statistically with other shapes photographed on Mars, and he concluded that "the face is not natural." "It's extremely unlikely that it's a trick of light and shadow," said Carlotto.