Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Shadowy

Shadowy , adjective

1.
Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
Shadowy verdure. — Fenton
This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. — Shakespeare
2.
Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.
The shadowy past. — Longfellow
3.
Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
The moon... with more pleasing light, Shadowy sets off the face things. — Milton
4.
Faintly representative; hence, typical.
From shadowy types to truth, from flesh to spirit. — Milton
5.
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. — Addison