SHAD'OWY, adjective 1. Full of shade; dark; gloomy. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. More pleasant light Shadowy sets off the face of things. Milton. 3. Faintly representative; typical; as shadowy expiations. 4. Unsubstantial; unreal. Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a shadowy and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death. Addison. 5. Dark; obscure; opake. By command ere yet dim night Her shadowy cloud withdraws. Milton.
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