shadow picture

A picture or image of an object or objects produced upon a fluorescent screen or upon a sensitized plate by means of the Roentgen rays (q. v.). shad-ōw, v. t. [SHADOW, s.] "A shadow is a diminution of the first and second light. The first light is that which proceeds immediately from a lightened body, as the beams of the sun. The second is an accidental light, spreading itself into the air, or me. dium, proceeding from the other. Shadows are three- fold: the first is a single shadow , and the least of all; and 1. To overspread with obscurity or shade; to is proper to the plain surface, where it is not wholly po hade; to obscure by intercepting the light or heat se ed of the light. The second is the double shadow , and from. I. Literally : shadowgraph 2. To darken, to obscure, to cloud; to cast a gloom over. "Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed livery of the burning sun." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice , ii. 1. *3. To mark with slight gradations of light or color; to shade. *4. To paint in dark or obscure colors. "If the parts be too much distant, so that there be void spaces which are deeply shadowed , then place in those voids some fold, to make a joining of the parts."-Dryden: Dufresnoy. *5. To represent by a shadow. "Certes a shadowe hath likene e of the thing of which t is shadowed, but shadowe is not same thing of which it s shadowed." - Chaucer: Per sones Tale. II. Figuratively: *1. To screen, to hide, to conceal. "Thereby shall we shadow The number of our host." Shakesp.: Macbeth, v. 4. *2. To shelter, to protect. "Shadowing their right under your wings of war." Shakesp.: King John, ii. 1. *3. To follow closely; to attend on as closely as a shadow. 4. To represent or indicate faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate. "The duty Lord Salisbury thus shadowed forth."London Standard. 5. To represent typically. (Frequently followed by forth .) shad-ow-graph, s . The same as SHADOW-PICTURE (q. v.). shadow-i-ne , s. [Eng, shadowy; -ne .] The quality or state of being shadowy. shadow-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [SHADOW,r.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the vərb.) IMG:content-1294.png:[blocks in formation] tions and shadowings."-Evelyn: Architecture. 2. Paint .: The art of correctly representing the shadows of objects. *shad-ow-ish, a. [Eng. shadow ; -ish.] Shadowy. "That truth whereof theirs was but a shadow ish resemblance."- Hooker : Eccles. Politie , bk. viii. shad-ōw-le , a. [Eng. shadow, s.; -le .] Having no shadow. [SHADOW, 8..] "Fairies and shadowle witches." - Mi Edge worth: Ennui, ch. iii.