(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).
(v. t.) To exhibit to the mental view; to tell; to disclose; to
reveal; to make known; as, to show one's designs.
(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.
(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.
(v. t.) To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor.
(v. i.) To exhibit or manifest one's self or itself; to appear; to
look; to be in appearance; to seem.
(v. i.) To have a certain appearance, as well or ill, fit or
unfit; to become or suit; to appear.
(n.) The act of showing, or bringing to view; exposure to sight;
exhibition.
(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.
(n.) Proud or ostentatious display; parade; pomp.
(n.) Semblance; likeness; appearance.
(n.) False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.
(n.) A discharge, from the vagina, of mucus streaked with blood,
occuring a short time before labor.
(n.) A pale blue flame, at the top of a candle flame, indicating
the presence of fire damp.
