5. That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an
inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower.
Sin and her shadow Death.
Milton.
6. A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom. "Hence, horrible shadow!"
Shak.
7. An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct
image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type.
The law having a shadow of good things to come.
Heb. x. 1.
[Types] and shadows of that destined seed.
Milton.
8. A small degree; a shade. "No variableness, neither shadow of
turning." James i. 17.
9. An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited. [A Latinism]
Nares.
I must not have my board pastered with shadows That under other
men's protection break in Without invitement.
Massinger.
Shadow of death, darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or
the impending of death. Ps. xxiii. 4.
Shad"ow, v. t. [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.