(a) The dark image cast by someone or something when interposed between an object and the sun, a shadow; also fig.; (b) a darkened area created by shadows, shade; shades blak, the underworld; (c) astrol. in hire ~, of the moon: in a dark or shadowed phase; (d) darkness; (e) an image reflected in water; (f) as surname; (g) ?in place name [see Smith PNElem.2.99].