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A large food fish (Anoplopoma fimbria) of the north Pacific coast; -- called also candlefish.

ina, or the chief city of such a district; -- often part of the name of a city, as in Foochow.

Consisting of several kinds mingled together; mixed; as, chowchow sweetmeats (preserved fruits put together).

A seller of fish. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell. Chowder beer, a liquor made by boiling black spruce in water and mixing molasses with the decoction.

A whisk to keep off files, used in the East Indies. Malcom.

To grumble or mutter like a froward child. [Obs.] E. Phillips.

A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail. [Also written dow.]

To show or exhibit beforehand; to give foreknowledge of; to prognosticate; to foretell. Your looks foreshow You have a gentle heart. Shak. Next, like Aurora, Spenser rose, Whose purple blush the day foreshows. Denham.

One who predicts.

To foreshow.

A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.

d 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). Go thy way, shew thyself to the priest. Matt. viii. 4. Nor want we skill or art from whence to raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show…

Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabba…

One who shows or exhibits.

Full of showers. Tennyson.

Quality of being showery.

Rainless; freo from showers.

Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.

In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.

The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.