Shad"ow*y (?), a.
Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods.
Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.
Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
The moon . . . with more pleasing light,
Shadowy sets off the face things.
Faintly representative; hence, typical.
From sshadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit.
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.
© Webster 1913.