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shadowy, a.|ˈʃædəʊɪ|
Forms: 4 shadewy, schadewy, shadwye, 5 shadwy, schadowye, 6 shaddowy, 7 shadowey, 4– shadowy.
[f. shadow n. + -y.]
1. Resembling or of the nature of a shadow.
a. Unsubstantial, impalpable; transitory, fleeting; unreal, imaginary.
1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. iv. (Skeat) II. 60 Thise shadewy transitorie dignitees [L. has umbratiles dignitates]. 1632Milton L'Allegro 108 When in one night..His shadowy Flale hath thresh'd the Corn That ten day-labourers could not end. 1712Addison Spect. No. 419 ⁋8 We find a whole Creation of the like shadowy Persons in Spencer. 1814Byron Lara i. vii, He did not follow what they all pursued..; Nor shadowy honour, nor substantial gain. 1855Longfellow Hiawatha v. 58 Gazing with half-open eyelids Full of shadowy dreams and visions. 1884Lindley in Law Times Rep. LI. 277/1 The plaintiff's case is of such a shadowy, frivolous, and vexatious character.
b. Spectral, ghostly.
1681J. Scott Chr. Life i. iii. (1684) 72 Their Monuments and Sepulchres, where the shadowy Phantasms of such Souls have sometimes appeared. 1727De Foe Hist. Appar. v. (1840) 45, I come now to the main and most disputed part of shadowy appearance, viz, the apparition of unembodied soul. 1804Moore Passing Deadman's Isl. iv, Yon shadowy bark hath been to that wreck. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid iv. 243 From the river of Death he recalls Shadowy ghosts.
c. Faintly perceptible, indistinct, vague.
1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian i, He perceived a shadowy figure station itself at the entrance of the arch. 1819Byron Juan ii. cxlvii, Where the blue veins look'd shadowy, shrunk and weak. 1862Spencer First Princ. i. v. §32 (1875) 113 A belief seeming to them so shadowy and indefinite. 1888Henley Bk. Verses 160 A shadowy sail, silent and gray, Stole like a ghost across the bay.
†d. Of the nature of a faint or reflected image; symbolic, typical. Obs.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. Wks. 1851 III. 103 Indeed the description is as sorted best to the apprehension of those times, typicall and shadowie. 1676Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. 90 Philosophers had some kind of..dark adumbration or shadowy description of the first principles of Nature. 1726Penn Tracts Wks. I. 578 That it might the better end the Jews shadowy services.
e. quasi-adv.
1797Coleridge Christabel i. 60 A silken robe of white, That shadowy in the moonlight shone. c1804Moore Odes to Nea vii, The broad banana's green embrace Hung shadowy round each tranquil grace. 1897Olive Custance Opals, A Pause, In silver mail all shadowy pale, The moon shines white.
2. a. Abounding in shade; protected from the sun.
1398Trevisa Barth. De. P.R. xviii. lviii. (Bodl. MS.), His modre huydeþ hym..in schadewi places. c1450Burgh Secrees 1918 In placys pleyn moyst and shadwy. 1526Grete Herball xcii. (1529) F ij, It ought to be gadred whan it bereth floures & than be hanged to dry in a shadowy place. 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden xi. 23 Primroses and Cow⁓slips joy most in shadowy places. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho 35 The bluish tints that pervaded their shadowy recesses. 1824Mrs. Sherwood Waste Not iii. 3 The various shadowy lanes branching off from the high road. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxiii. 41 When he smote the shadowy twilight with his healthy team sublime.
b. Enveloped in shadow; obscured by shadows.
1840Susan E. Miles in Palmer Bk. Praise (1865) 70 Our spirits shall not dread The shadowy way to tread. 1855Tennyson Maud ii. i. ii, A shadow there at my feet, High over the shadowy land. 1876Hardy Ethelberta xlvi, From the shadowy archway came a shining lantern which was seen to be dangling from the hand of..the hostler, John.
†c. Screened from observation, retired; hence, remote, inaccessible. Obs.
1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. viii. 177 These [Gymnosophistæ] haunte the outemoste borders, and shadowie partes of that countrie. 1591Shakes. Two Gent. v. iv. 2 This shadowy desart, vnfrequented woods I better brooke then flourishing peopled Townes. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 369 Then they wash it with the bloud of a slaine Wolfe, and carry it into a shadowie place.
3. Casting a shadow, affording shade.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 605 About noon when the season groweth hot, they lead them [sheep] to shaddowey trees and rocks. 1796W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XX. 515 The shadowy palm. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. x. (1894) 250 To climb the rocks when the sun is hot and creep into cool shadowy ledges.
†4. Of an inflorescence: Shaped like a ‘shadow’ or umbrella. Obs.
1562Turner Herbal ii. 107 b, A shaddowy or spokye top with a round circle as dyll. 1578Lyte Dodoens v. xlii. 606 The stalkes..be full of branches, vppon the which grow spoky tufts or litle shadowy toppes with white flowers. Ibid. vi. lxxx. 760 The flowers [of the Viburnum Opulus] be white, and grow in brode round shadowy tuffetes.
5. Comb.
1855Tennyson Daisy xviii, A thousand shadowy-pencill'd valleys And snowy dells. |