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shew - What does it mean?

Definition of 'shew'

English

Verb

  • (label)
  • * , Genesis 12:1
  • * , Ruth 2:19
  • * {{quote-book|year= 1774|by= (Le Page Du Pratz)|title= The History of Louisiana: Or of the Western Parts of Virginia and Carolina: Containing a Description of the Countries that Lie on Both Sides of the River Mississippi: with an Account of the Settlements, Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, and Products|url= http://books.google.com/books?id=zEoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA42|chapter= The Governor surprized the Natchez with seven hundred Men.|publisher= T. Becket
  • |location= London|page= 42|passage= I give it you without any other design than to shew you that I reckon nothing dear to me, when I want to do you a pleasure.}}
  • * 1786 : Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page xiv.
  • * 1843 : '', Book 2, Ch. 5, ''Twelfth Century
  • * 1884 : '', Sec. 4, ''Concerning the Women
  • *
  • * 1921 : Marcel Proust translated by C. K. Moncrieff, Swann's Way , page 1.
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (label) (show)
  • Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (label) A show.
  • Similar to 'shew'

    skew, saw, sew, show, sow, shaw, scow, squaw, swow