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A constellation represented as a serpent held by Serpentarius.

A symbol representing seven units, as 7, or vii.

A symbol representing seventy units, as 70, or lxx. The Seventy, the translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament called the Septuagint. See Septuagint.

To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to represent. [Obs.] [The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade That part of Justice which is Equity. Spenser.

That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc., in a picture or a drawing.

hade 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.

A faint representation; an adumbration. There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. Tylor.

Faintly representative; hence, typical. From sshadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit. Milton.

A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill.

The representation or image of a fowl made by fowlers to shoot at. Johnson.

e of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. [Written also shewbread.] Mark ii. 26.

That by which anything is made known or represented; that which furnishes evidence; a mark; a token; an indication; a proof. Specifically:

Betokening or representing by an external sign. The holy symbols or signs are not barely significative. Brerewood.

A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.

That which is like or similar; a representation, semblance, or copy; a facsimile. Man should wed his similitude. Chaucer.

Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts.

To take a position for the purpose of having some artistic representation of one's self made, as a picture or a bust; as, to sit to a painter. To sit at, to rest under; to be subject to. [Obs.] "A farmer can not husband his ground so well if he sit at a great rent". Bacon. -- To sit at meat or at table, to be at table…

A symbol representing six units, as 6, vi., or VI. To be at six and seven or at sixes and sevens, to be in disorder. Bacon. Shak. Swift.

A symbol representing sixteen units, as 16, or xvi.

A symbol representing sixty units, as 60, lx., or LX.