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Shew

//ʃoʊ// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of show. alt-of, archaic

    "Cannot the body weepe without the eies? / Yes and frame deepeſt canzons of lament, / Cannot the body feare, without it lies / Vpon the outward ſhew of diſcontent: […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    Archaic spelling of show. alt-of, archaic

    "NOw the Lord had ſaid vnto Abram, Get thee out of thy countrey, and from thy kinred, and from thy fathers houſe, vnto a land that I will ſhew thee."

  2. 2
    simple past of show East-Anglia, form-of, past

    "As I travelled, the signposts shew me the way."

  3. 3
    Nonstandard spelling of shoo. alt-of, nonstandard

    "Shew! fly, don't bother me, Shew! fly, don't bother me, Shew! fly, don't bother me, I belong to comp'ny G."

  4. 4
    establish the validity of something, as by an example, explanation or experiment wordnet

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