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Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun.

A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

xtended; often met as a device upon military ornaments, and the like. (c) (Her.) An eagle displayed; an eagle with the wings and legs extended on each side of the body, as in the double-headed eagle of Austria and Russia. See Displayed, 2.

A pole upon which a flag is supported and displayed.

To exhibit upon a stage, or as upon a stage; to display publicly. Shak.

ther ensign. His armies, in the following day, On those fair plains their standards proud display. Fairfax.

Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish dress, house, manner. -- Styl"ish*ly, adv. -- Styl"ish*ness, n.

Like a sylph; airy; graceful. Sometimes a dance . . . Displayed some sylphlike figures in its maze. Byron.

Display of force or energy at a distance, or without contact; - - applied to mediumistic phenomena. -- Tel`en*er"gic (#), a.

To draw, or cause to follow, by displaying something pleasing or desirable; to allure by some bait. [Written also toll.] Whatever you observe him to be more frighted at then he should, tole him on to by insensible degrees, till at last he masters the difficulty.

To represent; to exhibit; to display; to expose; to make an example of. [Obs.] Bacon.

To display, or spread to view, as a flag, or the colors of a military body.

view or contemplation; to bring out in all the details, or by successive development; to display; to disclose; to reveal; to elucidate; to explain; as, to unfold one's designs; to unfold the principles of a science. Unfold the passion of my love. Shak.

To display; to reveal. Dryden.

To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag. Pride, which prompts a man to vaunt and overvalue what he is, does incline him to disvalue what he has. Gov. of Tongue.

The act of setting forth ostentatiously; a boastful display. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A glass show case for displaying fine wares, specimens, etc.

s scandens). It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the seeds.

worms of Nile. Shak. When Cerberus perceived us, the great worm, His mouth he opened and displayed his tusks. Longfellow.