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shadowing |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shadowing \Shad"ow*ing\, n. 1. Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading. --Feltham. 2. A faint representation; an adumbration. There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. --Tylor. 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 1.6 [wn]: shadowing adj : following surreptitiously; keeping under surveillance; "always on guard against shadowing submarines" [syn: {tailing}] n : the act of following someone secretly [syn: {tailing}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: shadowing {aliasing}
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