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Appearance; display; exhibition.

Showy; ostentatious. Swift.

One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.

p. p. of Show.

A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.

, a. Etym: [Compar. Showier (; superl. Showiest.]

A caul. See Caul, n., 3. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

r; in some way not yet known or designated; by some means; as, the thing must be done somehow; he lives somehow. By their action upon one another they may be swelled somehow, so as to shorten the length. Cheyne.

uld sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels. Dickens.

A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.

hes, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.

; a kind of cupboard, buffet, or sideboard. Abacus harmonicus (Mus.), an ancient diagram showing the structure and disposition of the keys of an instrument. Crabb.

riority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

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. No man wrote abler state papers. Macaulay.

To bode; to foreshow. [Obs.] Shak.

To finish; to accomplish. [Obs.] The work begun, how soon absolved. Milton.

To take by the mind; to understand; as, How are these words to be accepted

ourse. During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

To show the correspondence of; to apply or make suit by analogy; to adapt or fit, as teachings to accidental circumstances, statements to facts, etc.; as, to accommodate prophecy to events.