Hypertext Webster Gateway: "shadowed"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

shadowed
adj : filled with shade; "the shady side of the street"; "the
surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"; "we sat on
rocks in a shadowy cove"; "cool umbrageous woodlands"
[syn: {shady}, {shadowy}, {umbrageous}]


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