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.
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.