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Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak.

n on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect; -- so called from Shadrach, one of the three Hebrews who came forth unharmed from the fiery furnace of Nebuchadnezzar. (See Dan. iii. 26, 27.)

Abounding in shade or shades; overspread with shade; causing shade. The shady trees cover him with their shadow. Job. xl. 22. And Amaryllis fills the shady groves. Dryden.

To free from shadow or shade. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.

To double the natural darkness of (a place). Milton.

To shadow or typi Dryden.

Marked with different shades. W. Browne.

ame of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna (a). -- Enchanter's nightshade. See under Enchanter. -- Stinking nightshade. See Henbane. --…

To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.

To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7.

One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.

Overshadowing. [R.]

Anything used as a protection from the sun's rays. Specifically:

The expressive emphasis and shading of a passage. J. S. Dwight.

o that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

Agreement, harmony, or just correspondence of things; as, the accord of light and shade in painting.

Giving a faint shadow, or slight resemblance; shadowing forth.

To give a faint shadow or slight representation of; to outline; to shadow forth. Both in the vastness and the richness of the visible universe the invisible God is adumbrated. L. Taylor.

The act of adumbrating, or shadowing forth.

A hard, compact variety of carbonate of lime, somewhat translucent, or of banded shades of color; stalagmite. The name is used in this sense by Pliny. It is sometimes distinguished as oriental alabaster.