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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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S(c)had(d)ow, v. Also: schado(u. [ME and e.m.E. schadow (a1300), also sseduy (1340), OE sceadwian, f. sceadu; S(c)had(d)ow n.]

1. a. tr. To reflect. b. intr. To cast a shadow. c. tr. To provide (a painting) with ‘shadows’.a. c1500-c1512 Dunb. G. Targe 31 (Ch. & M.).
All the lake as lamp did leme of licht, Quhilk schadovit all about wyth twynkling glemisb. 1513 Doug. iv Prol. 2.
Bricht Cytherea, Quhilk only schaddowist amang starris lytec. 1581-1623 James VI Poems I 200/40.
Like a painter shadowing … a portrait … for giuing it greter viuenes, so I eike or paire to the circumstaunces of the actions

2. transf. or fig. To enfold protectively; to protect. Also to schaddow oure.(1) 1513 Doug. i x 70.
Quhar Tendir mariolyne and sweit flowris thar out With thar dulce smell hym schaddowit rownd about 1567 Facs. Nat. MSS III lv.
Boithuile … schadoand his murther and vtheris wickit enormiteis fra pvnisment with the cloik of hir auctoritie c1650 Spalding II 197.
Scheltred and schaddowit by a pretendit auchtoritie of Parliament(2) 1562-3 Winȝet II 64/11.
Na thing of thair awin almaist euir produce thai, quhilk thai intend nocht to schaddow oure also with the wordis of Scriptuir … Bot samekle mair ar thai to be … ferit, the mair quietlie thai lurk wnder the schadowis of Godis law

b. To schaddow up, to conceal, hide away. 1610 Reg. Privy C. IX 572.
All … worthy to be imparted to the aige present and posteritie, and not so to be schaddowed up in perrisying scrollis