shadow stitch (shadostich)

In lace - mak ing, a mode of using the bobbins so as to produce delicate openwork borde rings and the like, the thread cro ing from one solid part of the pattern to another in a sort of ladder With grene trees shadwed was his place. Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 607. The warlike Elfe much wondred at this tree, So fayre and great, that shadowed all the ground. Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 56. As the tree Stands in the sun and shadows all beneath, So in the light of great eternity Life eminent creates the shade of death. Tennyson, Love and Death. 2. To darken; cloud; obscure; bedim; tarnish. Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow'd livery of the burnish'd sun, To whom I am a neighbour and near bred. Shak., M. of V., ii. 1. 2. Yet further for my paines to discredit me, and my calling it New-England, they obscured it and shadowed it with the title of Cannada. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 262. 3. To mark with or represent by shading; mark with slight gradations of color or light; shade; darken slightly. If the parts be too much distant,... so that there be void spaces which are deeply shadowed , we are then to take occasion to place in those voids some fold, to make a joining of the parts. Dryden, tr. of Dufresnoy's Art of Painting, xxii. It is good to shadow carnations, and all yellows. Peacham . 4. To represent in a shadowy or figurative way; hence, to betoken; typify; foreshow: sometimes with forth or out. The next figure [on a medal] shadows out Eternity to us, by the sun in one hand and the moon in the other. Add is on, Dialogues on Medals, ii. The tales of fairy-spiriting may shadow a lamentable verity. Lamb , Chimney-Sweepers. 5. To shelter; screen; hide; conceal; disguise. shadow-test (shad'ō-test), n. Same as ski as copy. shadow-vane (shad'ō-vān), n. The part of a back-staff which received the shadow, and so indicated the direction of the sun.