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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Show (show)
v. t.(?)
Show
[imp. Showed (?); p. p. Shown (?) or Showed; p. pr. *** vb. n. Showing. It is sometimes written shew, shewed, shewn, shewing.] [OE. sc
  1. To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers).

    Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest. Matt. viii. 4.

    Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise
    Magnificence; and what can heaven show more?
    Milton.

  2. To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.

    Shew them the way wherein they must walk. Ex. xviii. 20.

    If it please my father to do thee evil, then I will shew it thee, and send thee away. 1 Sam. xx. 13.

  3. Specifically, to make known the way to (a person); hence, to direct; to guide; to asher; to conduct; as, to show a person into a parlor; to show one to the door.
  4. To make apparent or clear, as by evidence, testimony, or reasoning; to prove; to explain; also, to manifest; to evince; as, to show the truth of a statement; to show the causes of an event.

    I 'll show my duty by my timely care. Dryden.

  5. To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.

    Shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me. Ex. xx. 6.

    To show forth, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim. -- To show his paces, to exhibit the gait, speed, or the like; -- said especially of a horse. -- To show off, to exhibit ostentatiously. -- To show up, to expose. [Colloq.]


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Show (show)
v. i.
Show
  1. To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem.

    Just such she shows before a rising storm. Dryden.

    All round a hedge upshoots, and shows
    At distance like a little wood.
    Tennyson.

  2. To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear.

    My lord of York, it better showed with you. Shak.

    To show off, to make a show; to display one's self.


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Show (show)
n.(?)
Show
[Formerly written also shew.]
  1. The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition.
  2. That which os shown, or brought to view; that which is arranged to be seen; a spectacle; an exhibition; as, a traveling show; a cattle show.

    As for triumphs, masks, feasts, and such shows. Bacon.

  3. Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.

    I envy none their pageantry and show. Young.

  4. Semblance; likeness; appearance.

    He through the midst unmarked,
    In show plebeian angel militant
    Of lowest order, passed.
    Milton.

  5. False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.

    Beware of the scribes, . . . which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers. Luke xx. 46. 47.

  6. A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor.
  7. A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp.
    Raymond.

    Show bill, a broad sheet containing an advertisement in large letters. -- Show box, a box xontaining some object of curiosity carried round as a show. -- Show card, an advertising placard; also, a card for displaying samples. -- Show case, a gla(?)ed case, box, or cabinet for displaying and protecting shopkeepers' wares, articles on exhibition in museums, etc. -- Show glass, a glass which displays objects; a mirror. -- Show of hands, a raising of hands to indicate judgment; as, the vote was taken by a show of hands. -- Show stone, a piece of glass or crystal supposed to have the property of exhibiting images of persons or things not present, indicating in that way future events.














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