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Expressing, or apt to express, much; displaying feeling or sentiment; as, her nature was demonstrative.

To open out; to unfold; to spread out (a body of troops) in such a way that they shall display a wider front and less depth; -- the reverse of ploy; as, to deploy a column of troops into line of battle.

Sudden display; flash; glitter. [R.] A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.

A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper.

To deck in glaring colors; to set off conspicuously; to display pompously; to decorate. The walls were . . . emblazoned with legends in commemoration of the illustrious pair. Prescott.

One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.

A splay of a door or window. Apart, in the twilight gloom of a window's embrasure, Sat the lovers. Longfellow.

Demonstrative warmth or cordiality of manner; display of enthusiasm.

A signal displayed like a standard, to give notice. He will lift an ensign to the nations from far. Is. v. 26.

The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm…

r inspection; to show, especially in order to attract notice to what is interesting; to display; as, to exhibit commodities in a warehouse, a picture in a gallery. Exhibiting a miserable example of the weakness of mind and body. Pope.

The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display.

To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them examined. Locke.

The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.

A device for producing a striking display of light, or a figure or figures in plain or colored fire, by the combustion of materials that burn in some peculiar manner, as gunpowder, sulphur, metallic filings, and various salts. The most common feature of fireworks is a paper or pasteboard tube filled with the combustibl…

fleet or squadron; an admiral, or commodore. -- Flag of truse, a white flag carried or displayed to an enemy, as an invitation to conference, or for the purpose of making some communication not hostile. -- Flag share, the flag officer's share of prize money. -- Flag station (Railroad), a station at which trains do n…

rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.

To display ostentatiously; to make an impudent show of.

Foplike; characteristic of a top in dress or manners; making an ostentatious display of gay clothing; affected in manners.

Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display. [R.] "Tarnished gaudery." Dryden.