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shadowed, ppl. a.|ˈʃædəʊd|
[f. shadow v. + -ed1.]
1. Protected from light and heat; furnished with shade.
1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. lviii. 79 Wyn..þat growys in playn and moyst valeyes, and stedys shadwyd. 1526Grete Herball cxxxiv. (1529) H v b, Candelacia..groweth in shadowed and humourous places. 1600Surflet Country Farm ii. xlii. 277 Pimpernell..craueth a moist and shadowed ground. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 27 A Shepherd seeking with his Lass, To shun the Heat of Day; Was seated on the shadow'd Grass. 1857Kingsley Two Y. Ago xx, That peak is four miles from us now; and yet the shadowed cliffs at its foot seem double that distance.
†2. Her. = umbrated. Obs.—1
1486Bk. St. Albans, Her. c viij, He berith of golde with a mylneris cros umbratid or shadowyd. 1611Cotgr., Ombré, vmbred, or shadowed; (a tearme of Blason).
3. Obscured or darkened by shadow or shadows. Also transf. and fig.
1596Shakes. Merch. V. ii. i. 2 Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed liuerie of the burnisht sunne. 1729Savage Wanderer iii. 290 Winter more nitrous chills the shadow'd sky. 1825Longfellow Burial of Minnisink i, On sunny slope and beechen swell, The shadowed light of evening fell. 1867A. J. Wilson Vashti xxv, He scrutinized the sadly sharpened and shadowed features. 1908A. Shield Henry Stuart Pref., The quiet shadowed story of the last Stuart prince.
4. Of a portion of a visible object or scene: Lying in shadow or shade. (Chiefly with implied reference to artistic representation.)
1657G. Thornley Daphnis & Chloe 171 The shadowed beauty of the ripened grapes. 1778Sir J. Reynolds Disc. viii. (1779) 19 You must oppose a light ground to the shadowed side of your Figure. 1830in Builder 9 Jan. (1864) 22/3 [Fuseli:] ‘Don't say shadowed, it is incorrect’. ‘Shaded, then, sir?’ ‘Yes. I know Sir Joshua uses ‘shadowed’; but it is not right.’ 1879Linton Hints Wood Engraving 28 The shadowed face of the boy,..and it may be the level sky, are engraved in regular lines.
†5. Of textile fabrics: Having colours or tints gradually passing one into another. Obs.
1639in Verney Mem. (1907) I. 154 Some shadoede sattine ribbinge.
†6. ? Faintly written; ? showing faintly through a semi-opaque medium. (Cf. shadow n. 5 b.) Obs.
1588W. Kempe Educ. Children F 3 b, The Maister shall teach his Schollar to write by practise of drawing the Pen upon the figures of shadowed letters.
7. a. Indicated obscurely, or by symbol or type; disguised, veiled.
1635R. N. tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. i. 32 Whether this proceeded from any virtue of his, whereof he gave some shadowed tokens. 1726Pope Odyss. xix. 627 A visionary thought I'll now relate, Illustrate, if you know, the shadow'd fate. 1850Tennyson In Mem. xxxiii, Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views; Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days.
†b. Adopted as a disguise. Obs. rare—1.
1615R. Brathwait Strappado 173, I know your place and haue an ayme, To shewe your merits in a shadow'd name.
†8. Reduced to a shadow; shadowy, unreal.
1597Middleton Wisd. Solomon ix. 7 What were it to be shadow of a king? A vanity; to wear a shadow'd crown?
9. Followed by a ‘shadow’ or spy, kept under observation.
1889Daily News 12 Oct. 2/1 At last the shadowed man seized his opportunity, and slipped into the Irish mail unobserved.
10. Microscopy. Subjected to the process of shadow-casting vbl. n. 1.
1944Jrnl. Appl. Physics XV. 714/2 Photographing and measuring the lengths of the shadowed areas thus formed on the preparation. 1949Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. LXXI. 80/1 (caption) Chromium shadowed preparation of the same slide. 1973P. J. Goodhew Specimen Preparation in Materials Sci. v. 151 If a high resolution is required then the grain size of the shadowed replica is important. |