| Show |
v. t. |
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). |
| Show |
v. t. |
To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs. |
| Show |
v. t. |
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. |
| Show |
v. t. |
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. |
| Show |
v. t. |
To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor. |
| Show |
v. i. |
To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to look; to be in appearance; to seem. |
| Show |
v. i. |
To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or unfit; to become or suit; to appear. |
| Show |
n. |
The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight; exhibition. |
| Show |
n. |
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. |
| Show |
n. |
Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp. |
| Show |
n. |
Semblance; likeness; appearance. |
| Show |
n. |
False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense. |
| Show |
n. |
A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood, occuring a short time before labor. |
| Show |
n. |
A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating the presence of fire damp. |
| Showbread |
n. |
Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God;
the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. |
| Showed |
imp. |
of Show |
| Showed |
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of Show |
| Shower |
n. |
One who shows or exhibits. |
| Shower |
n. |
That which shows; a mirror. |
| Shower |
n. |
A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow. |
| Shower |
n. |
That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly. |
| Shower |
n. |
A copious supply bestowed. |
| Shower |
v. t. |
To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain. |
| Shower |
v. t. |
To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain. |
| Shower |
v. i. |
To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers. |
| Showered |
imp. & p. p. |
of Shower |
| Showerful |
a. |
Full of showers. |
| Showeriness |
n. |
Quality of being showery. |
| Showering |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Shower |
| Showerless |
a. |
Rainless; freo from showers. |
| Showery |
a. |
Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. |
| Showery |
a. |
Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. |
| Showily |
adv. |
In a showy manner; pompously; with parade. |
| Showiness |
n. |
The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation. |
| Showing |
p. pr. & vb. n. |
of Show |
| Showing |
n. |
Appearance; display; exhibition. |
| Showing |
n. |
Presentation of facts; statement. |
| Showish |
a. |
Showy; ostentatious. |
| Showman |
n. |
One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show. |
| Showmen |
pl. |
of Showman |
| Shown |
p. p. |
of Show |
| Shown |
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p. p. of Show. |
| Showroom |
n. |
A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. |
| Showroom |
n. |
A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed. |
| Showy |
a. |
Making a show; attracting attention; presenting a marked appearance; ostentatious; gay; gaudy. |
