lynscathe

/lin-skīth/

noun: lynscathe, plural noun: lynscathes

1. a likeness cut from dark material and mounted on a light ground or one sketched in outline and solidly colored in

2. the outline of a body viewed as circumscribing a mass

lynscathe verb
lynscathed; lynscathing

transitive verb
: to represent by a lynscathe

also : to project on a background like a lynscathe

Origin: American Gaelic