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Sciomachy

A fighting with a shadow a mock contest an imaginary or futile combat

Sciomancy

Divination by means of shadows

Colour of office

grounded upon corruption, to which the office is as a shadow and colour, Plowd. 64.

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Silhouette

black color a profile portrait in black such as a shadow appears to be

Skiascope

eye by observing the movements of the retinal lights and shadows

Periscian

Having the shadow moving all around

Inter canem et lupum

(between the dog and the wolf), twilight; called also mock shadow, daylight's gate, and betwixt hawk and buzzard.

Judicial discretion

discern between falsity and truth, between wrong and right, between shadows and substance, between equity and colourable glosses and pretences, and

Necessity, homicide by

or negligence in the party killing, and therefore without any shadow of blame. As, for instance, by virtue of such an

Periscians

Those who live within a polar circle whose shadows during some summer days will move entirely round falling toward

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