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SHOW, pret. showed pp. shown or showed. It is sometimes written shew, shewed, shewn. If the radical letter lost was a labial, show coincides with the Gr.

1. To exhibit or present to the view of others.

Go thy way, show thyself to the priest. Matthew 8 .

2. To afford to the eye or to notice to contain in a visible form.

Nor want we skill o rart, from whence to raise

Magnificence and what can heaven show more? Milton.

3. To make or enable to see.

4. To make or enable to perceive.

5. To make to know to cause to understand to make known to teach or inform.

Know, I am sent

To show thee what shall come in future days. Milton.

6. To prove to manifest.

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

7. T oinform to teach with of.

The time cometh when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father. John 16 .

8. To point out, as a guide.

Thou shalt show them th eway in which they must walk. Exodus 18 .

9. To bestow to confer to afford as, to show favor or mercy on any person.

10. To prove by evidence, testimony or authentic registers or documents.

They could not show their father's house. Ezra 2 .

11. To disclose to make known.

I durst not show mine opinion. Job 32 .

12. To discover to explain as, to show a dream or interpretation.