Word Meanings - OVERSHADOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• SHADELESS
  Being without shade; not shaded.
• SHADEFUL
  Full of shade; shady.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• SHADOWINESS
  The quality or state of being shadowy.
• SHADOWISH
  Shadowy; vague. Hooker.
• SHADE
  The darker portion of a picture; a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above. 8. Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter, stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink. White, red, yellow, blue, with their several degrees, or shades
• THROWSTER
  One who throws or twists silk; a thrower.
• SHADOW
  1. Shade 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.,
• SHADER
  One who, or that which, shades.
• SHADOWLESS
  Having no shadow.
• SHADOWING
  1. Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading. Feltham. 2. A faint representation; an adumbration. There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. Tylor.
• ANYTHING
  1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• DOUBLE-SHADE
  To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
• OVERSHADE
  To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow. Shak.
• DISSHADOW
  To free from shadow or shade. G. Fletcher.
• OVERSHADOW
  1. To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure. There was a cloud that overshadowed them. Mark ix. 7. 2. Fig.: To cover with a superior influence. Milton.
• NIGHTSHADE
  A common name of many species of the genus Solanum, given esp. to the Solanum nigrum, or black nightshade, a low, branching weed with small white flowers and black berries reputed to be poisonous. Deadly nightshade. Same as Belladonna
• OVERSHADOWER
  One that throws a shade, or shadow, over anything. Bacon.
• OVERSHADOWY
  Overshadowing.
• SUNSHADE
  Anything used as a protection from the sun's rays. Specifically: A small parasol. An awning.
• INSHADED
  Marked with different shades. W. Browne.