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Definition of 'shadowing'

noun

The act of following someone secretly [syn: shadowing, tailing]

From: GCIDE

Shadow \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. [1913 Webster]
The warlike elf much wondered at this tree, So fair and great, that shadowed all the ground. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
2. To conceal; to hide; to screen. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Let every soldier hew him down a bough. And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
3. To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud. [1913 Webster]
Shadowing their right under your wings of war. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
4. To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade. [1913 Webster]
5. To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically. [1913 Webster]
Augustus is shadowed in the person of [AE]neas. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
6. To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over. [1913 Webster]
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Why sad? I must not see the face O love thus shadowed. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
7. To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal. [1913 Webster]

From: GCIDE

Shadowing \Shad"ow*ing\, n.
1. Shade, or gradation of light and color; shading. --Feltham. [1913 Webster]
2. A faint representation; an adumbration. [1913 Webster]
There are . . . in savage theology shadowings, quaint or majestic, of the conception of a Supreme Deity. --Tylor. [1913 Webster]