Painting and Drawing. The darker part of a picture, etc. representing the less illuminated portions of the original. Also the colour used in the…

Dark colour or shade. Esp. Painting: (any of) the dark parts of a picture or other image representing or reproducing darkness or shade (cf. light, n.1…

Drawing and Painting. Absence of complete illumination as represented pictorially; the parts, or a particular part, of a picture which represent…

Painting. A part of a picture representing shade or darkness. Obsolete. rare.

Chiefly Painting and Drawing. An area where shade blends with light; a shadowy area.

In plural. Any of the darkest or most heavily shaded areas in a painting, photograph, etc. Opposed to highlight, n. 1a.

Thrown, that has been thrown. (See the verb.) cast shadow, in painting, a shadow cast by an object within the picture, and serving to bring it out…