shadowed
AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Adjective (1)
- 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”Synonyms: shadyshadowyumbrageous
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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. [1913 Webster]
The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
2.To conceal; to hide; to screen. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
3.To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. [1913 Webster]
Shadowing their right under your wings of war.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
4.To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade. [1913 Webster]
5.To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. [1913 Webster]
Augustus is shadowed in the person of [AE]neas.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]
6.To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. [1913 Webster]
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Why sad? I must not see the face O love thus shadowed.— Beau. & Fl.[1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]