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Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice. Shak.

Ugly; homely; poor. [Obs.] Chaucer. Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares. Shak.

; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton.

ming a joint at the intersection of window-sash bars, by cutting away only enough wood to show a miter.

e bark of the ash (Fraxinus) and along with esculin in the bark of the horse-chestnut. It shows a delicate fluorescence in alkaline solutions; -- called also paviin.

To rub. We can show the marks he made When 'gainst the oak his antlers frayed. Sir W. Scott.

A stream or spring of fresh water. He shall drink naught but brine; for I'll not show him Where the quick freshes are. Shak.

, a bold front; a hardened front. With smiling fronts encountering. Shak. The inhabitants showed a bold front. Macaulay.

Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson. It was a long speech, but all froth. L'Estrange.

Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.

A paint; a dye; also, false show. [Obs.]

Anything vaporlike, unsubstantial, or' airy; idle conceit; vain imagination. A show of fumes and fancies. Bacon.

The procession attending the burial of the dead; the show and accompaniments of an interment. "The long funerals." Pope.

Merrily; showily. See gaily.

A woman's broad-brimmed hat of a form thought to resemble those shown in portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, the English artist (1727- 88).

Pomp, show, or festivity. Macaulay. Gala day, a day of mirth and festivity; a holiday.

Showy; splendid; magnificent; gay; well-dressed. The town is built in a very gallant place. Evelyn. Our royal, good and gallant ship. Shak.

e killing of game on his estate with a view to its increase. [Eng.] -- To be game. (a) To show a brave, unyielding spirit. (b) To be victor in a game. [Colloq.] -- To die game, to maintain a bold, unyielding spirit to the last; to die fighting.

Showing an unyielding spirit to the last; plucky; furnishing sport; as, a gamy trout.

Showing self-forgetfulness in surprise, astonishment, expectation, etc. With gaping wonderment had stared aghast. Byron.