Shad"ow*y (?), a. 1.
Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
"Shadowy verdure." Fenton.
This shadowy desert, unfrequented
woods.
Shak.
2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.
"The shadowy past." Longfellow.
3. Not brightly luminous; faintly
light.
The moon . . . with more pleasing light,
Shadowy sets off the face things.
Milton.
4. Faintly representative; hence,
typical.
From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to
spirit.
Milton.
5. Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy
honor.
Milton has brought into his poems two actors of a
shadowy
and fictitious nature, in the persons of Sin and Death.
Addison.