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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.

To strike or cast down; to overthrow. [Obs.] "Reassembling our afflicted powers." Milton.

To strike, or strike down. [Obs.] Spenser.

effect of which is, that marriages grow less frequent, agreeably to the maxim above laid down. Paley.

A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.

fection of the body; -- not applied ordinarily to acute diseases. "Little ailments." Landsdowne.

nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.

r lake; an eyot. The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649). Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.

of transmuting something common into something precious. Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. Shak.

To spring down, get down, or descend, as from on horseback or from a carriage; to dismount.

tains; specif., a reillumination sometimes observed after the summits have passed into shadow, supposed to be due to a curving downward (refraction) of the light rays from the west resulting from the cooling of the air.

the hill, which were not yet come to blows, perceiving the fewness of their enemies, came down amain. Milton. That striping giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain. T. Parker.

ising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. South.

n ambling horse; to go easily or without hard shocks. The skipping king, he ambled up and down. Shak. Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. Shak.

er. The body is usually compressed laterally, and the anterior pairs or legs are directed downward and forward, but the posterior legs are usually turned upward and backward. The beach flea is an example. See Tetradecapoda and Arthrostraca.

The inhabitants of the tropic, whose shadows in one part of the year are cast to the north, and in the other to the south, according as the sun is south or north of their zenith.

Moving up and down; -- said of earthquake shocks.

. -- At anchor, anchored. -- To back an anchor, to increase the holding power by laying down a small anchor ahead of that by which the ship rides, with the cable fastened to the crown of the latter to prevent its coming home. -- To cast anchor, to drop or let go an anchor to keep a ship at rest. -- To cat the ancho…