shadowed, ppl. a.
(ˈʃædəʊd)
[f. shadow v. + -ed1.]
1. Protected from light and heat; furnished with shade.
| 1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. lviii. 79 Wyn..þat growys in playn and moyst valeyes, and stedys shadwyd. 1526 Grete Herball cxxxiv. (1529) H v b, Candelacia..groweth in shadowed and humourous places. 1600 Surflet Country Farm ii. xlii. 277 Pimpernell..craueth a moist and shadowed ground. 1713 C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 27 A Shepherd seeking with his Lass, To shun the Heat of Day; Was seated on the shadow'd Grass. 1857 Kingsley Two Y. Ago xx, That peak is four miles from us now; and yet the shadowed cliffs at its foot seem double that distance. |
† 2. Her. = umbrated. Obs.—1
| 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. c viij, He berith of golde with a mylneris cros umbratid or shadowyd. 1611 Cotgr., Ombré, vmbred, or shadowed; (a tearme of Blason). |
3. Obscured or darkened by shadow or shadows. Also transf. and fig.
| 1596 Shakes. Merch. V. ii. i. 2 Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed liuerie of the burnisht sunne. 1729 Savage Wanderer iii. 290 Winter more nitrous chills the shadow'd sky. 1825 Longfellow Burial of Minnisink i, On sunny slope and beechen swell, The shadowed light of evening fell. 1867 A. J. Wilson Vashti xxv, He scrutinized the sadly sharpened and shadowed features. 1908 A. Shield Henry Stuart Pref., The quiet shadowed story of the last Stuart prince. |
4. Of a portion of a visible object or scene: Lying in shadow or shade. (Chiefly with implied reference to artistic representation.)
| 1657 G. Thornley Daphnis & Chloe 171 The shadowed beauty of the ripened grapes. 1778 Sir J. Reynolds Disc. viii. (1779) 19 You must oppose a light ground to the shadowed side of your Figure. 1830 in Builder 9 Jan. (1864) 22/3 [Fuseli:] ‘Don't say shadowed, it is incorrect’. ‘Shaded, then, sir?’ ‘Yes. I know Sir Joshua uses {oqq}shadowed{cqq}; but it is not right.’ 1879 Linton Hints Wood Engraving 28 The shadowed face of the boy,..and it may be the level sky, are engraved in regular lines. |
† 5. Of textile fabrics: Having colours or tints gradually passing one into another. Obs.
| 1639 in Verney Mem. (1907) I. 154 Some shadoede sattine ribbinge. |
† 6. ? Faintly written; ? showing faintly through a semi-opaque medium. (Cf. shadow n. 5 b.) Obs.
| 1588 W. Kempe Educ. Children F 3 b, The Maister shall teach his Schollar to write by practise of drawing the Pen upon the figures of shadowed letters. |
7. a. Indicated obscurely, or by symbol or type; disguised, veiled.
| 1635 R. N. tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. i. 32 Whether this proceeded from any virtue of his, whereof he gave some shadowed tokens. 1726 Pope Odyss. xix. 627 A visionary thought I'll now relate, Illustrate, if you know, the shadow'd fate. 1850 Tennyson In Mem. xxxiii, Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views; Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. |
† b. Adopted as a disguise. Obs. rare—1.
| 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 173, I know your place and haue an ayme, To shewe your merits in a shadow'd name. |
† 8. Reduced to a shadow; shadowy, unreal.
| 1597 Middleton Wisd. Solomon ix. 7 What were it to be shadow of a king? A vanity; to wear a shadow'd crown? |
9. Followed by a ‘shadow’ or spy, kept under observation.
| 1889 Daily News 12 Oct. 2/1 At last the shadowed man seized his opportunity, and slipped into the Irish mail unobserved. |
10. Microscopy. Subjected to the process of shadow-casting vbl. n. 1.
| 1944 Jrnl. Appl. Physics XV. 714/2 Photographing and measuring the lengths of the shadowed areas thus formed on the preparation. 1949 Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. LXXI. 80/1 (caption) Chromium shadowed preparation of the same slide. 1973 P. J. Goodhew Specimen Preparation in Materials Sci. v. 151 If a high resolution is required then the grain size of the shadowed replica is important. |