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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shadow \Shad"ow\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Shadowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Shadowing}.] [OE. shadowen, AS. sceadwian. See {adow}, n.]
1. To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground. --Spenser.
2. To conceal; to hide; to screen. [R.]
Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host. --Shak.
3. To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
Shadowing their right under your wings of war. --Shak.
4. To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
5. To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically.
Augustus is shadowed in the person of [AE]neas. --Dryden.
6. To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. --Shak.
Why sad? I must not see the face O love thus shadowed. --Beau. & Fl.
7. To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shadowing \Shad"ow*ing\, noun
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shadowing
adjective: following surreptitiously; keeping under surveillance; "always on guard against shadowing submarines" [syn: {tailing}]
noun: the act of following someone secretly [syn: {tailing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "shadowing": ambuscade, ambush, ambushment, blackening, blind, blocking the light, booby trap, bugging, chase, chasing, cloak-and-dagger work, clouding, counterespionage, counterintelligence, darkening, dimming, dogging, eclipsing, electronic surveillance, espial, espionage, extinguishment, follow, follow-up, following, heeling, hounding, hue and cry, hunting, intelligence, intelligence work, lurking hole, military intelligence, obfuscation, obnubilation, obscuration, obscurement, observation, obumbration, occulting, overcast, overclouding, overshading, overshadowing, overshadowment, prosecution, pursual, pursuance, pursuing, pursuit, quest, searching, secret police, secret service, seeking, sequel, sequence, series, shading, spying, stakeout, stalking, stalking-horse, surveillance, tailing, tracking, tracking down, trailing, trap, wiretap, wiretapping
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
shadowing {aliasing}
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