Definition of show

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Show (n.) False semblance; deceitful appearance; pretense.

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Weathercock :: Weathercock (n.) A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction..
Superbiate :: Superb (a.) Showy; excellent; grand; as, a superb exhibition..
Able :: Able (superl.) Specially: Having intellectual qualifications, or strong mental powers; showing ability or skill; talented; clever; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech..
Fucated :: Fucated (a.) Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show..
Cause :: Cause (v. i.) To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
Proxene :: Proxene (n.) An officer who had the charge of showing hospitality to those who came from a friendly city or state.
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court..
Ungracious :: Ungracious (a.) Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling.
Flutist :: Flutist (n.) To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result..
Incipient :: Incipient (a.) Beginning to be, or to show itself; commencing; initial; as, the incipient stage of a fever; incipient light of day..
Anemoscope :: Anemoscope (n.) An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind..
Counttenance :: Counttenance (n.) Superficial appearance; show; pretense.
Endeictic :: Endeictic (a.) Serving to show or exhibit; as, an endeictic dialogue, in the Platonic philosophy, is one which exhibits a specimen of skill..
Scire Facias :: Scire facias () A judicial writ, founded upon some record, and requiring the party proceeded against to show cause why the party bringing it should not have advantage of such record, or (as in the case of scire facias to repeal letters patent) why the record should not be annulled or vacated..
Shewer :: Shewer (n.) One who shews. See Shower.
Flourish :: Flourish (v. t.) To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish..
Discover :: Discover (v. i.) To discover or show one's self.
Teach :: Teach (v. t.) To accustom; to guide; to show; to admonish.
Flourish :: Flourish (n.) Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit..
Affecting :: Affecting (a.) Affected; given to false show.
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