Shadow /(shăd"ō̇)/

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.

3. A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.

   In secret shadow from the sunny ray, On a sweet bed of lilies softly laid.

4. A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
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.

6. A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.
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.

   [Types] and shadows of that destined seed.

8. A small degree; a shade.
9. An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. [A Latinism]

   I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other men's protection break in Without invitement.

imp. & p. p. Shadowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Shadowing

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.

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.

3. To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.

   Shadowing their right under your wings of war.

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 Æneas.

6. To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.

   The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.

   Why sad? I must not see the face O love thus shadowed.

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.