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Shadow :: Shadow (n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically..

Adumbration :: Adumbration (n.) A faint sketch; an outline; an imperfect portrayal or representation of a thing.

Faint :: Faint (superl.) Performed, done, or acted, in a weak or feeble manner; not exhibiting vigor, strength, or energy; slight; as, faint efforts; faint resistance..

Faint :: Faint (v. i.) To become weak or wanting in vigor; to grow feeble; to lose strength and color, and the control of the bodily or mental functions; to swoon; -- sometimes with away. See Fainting, n..

Faineant :: Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.

Faintness :: Faintness (n.) Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description..

Verditure :: Verditure (n.) The faintest and palest green.

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical..

Smorsato :: Smorsato (a.) Growing gradually fainter and softer; dying away; morendo.

Overtone :: Overtone (n.) One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or partial tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone..

Fain :: Fain (v. t. & i.) To be glad ; to wish or desire.

Tint :: Tint (n.) A pale or faint tinge of any color.

Trigenic :: Trigenic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C4H7N3O2, obtained, by the action of the vapor of cyanic acid on cold aldehyde, as a white crystalline substance having a slightly acid taste and faint smell; -- called also ethidene- / ethylidene-biuret..

Syncope :: Syncope (n.) A fainting, or swooning. See Fainting..

Swoon :: Swoon (v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away..

Small :: Small (adv.) Not loudly; faintly; timidly.

Fain :: Fain (adv.) With joy; gladly; -- with wold.

Lipothymy :: Lipothymy (n.) A fainting; a swoon.

Recovery :: Recovery (n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc..

Mastic :: Mastic (n.) A resin exuding from the mastic tree, and obtained by incision. The best is in yellowish white, semitransparent tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic, also as an ingredient in varnishes..

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