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or grandchild, or remoter lineal descendant. [Obs.] But if any widow have children or nephews [Rev. Ver. grandchildren,]. 1 Tim. v. 4. If naturalists say true that nephews are often liker to their grandfathers than to their fathers. Jer. Taylor.

To hew coarsely, without smoothing; as, to roughhew timber.

One who roughhews.

Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.

Wilson's thrush; -- so called from its note. [Local, U.S.]

Rarely shown or exhibited. [Obs.] Shak.

Show. [Obs. except in shewbread.]

See Showbread.

A scarecrow. [Obs.] Trench.

One who shews. See Shower.

p. p. of Shew.

ecifically, good qualities; virtues. [Obs.] For her great light Of sapience, and for her thews clear. Chaucer. Evil speeches destroy good thews. Wyclif (1 Cor. xv. 33). To be upbrought in gentle thews and martial might. Spenser.

Furnished with thews or muscles; as, a well-thewed limb.

Having strong or large thews or muscles; muscular; sinewy; strong.

To hew in pieces. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To hew less than is usual or proper; specifically, to hew, as a piece of timber which should be square, in such a manner that it appears to contain a greater number of cubic feet than it really does contain. Haldeman.

A sound like a half-formed whistle, expressing astonishment, scorn, or dislike. Whew duck, the European widgeon. [Prov. Eng.]

Calcium oxalate, occurring in colorless or white monoclinic crystals.

The European widgeon. [Prov. Eng.]

A woodpecker.