shew

verb

1. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic spelling of show.

   “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.”

   “And ſhee ſhewed her mother in lawe with whom ſhee had wrought, and ſaid, The mans name with whom I wrought to day, is Boaz.”

   “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.”

   “The section shewing its concavity and handle.”

   “[…] Mr. Willoughby wanted particularly to shew me the place; […]”

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

   “As I travelled, the signposts shew me the way.”

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

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

noun

1. (alt-of, archaic)Archaic spelling of show.

   “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: […]”

   “And if he did apprehend (as they ſay) nothing by the iudgement of men, he had no need to carrie his mortification ſo farre, as to dompt and ſubject his moſt inward and ſecret motions, and to pull downe the moſt liuely and ſecret prouocations of his fleſh: but it had bene ſufficient for him to haue vſed diſſimulation, and ſome outward ſhew of pretended reformation.”

   “Let them make ſhews of reforming while they will, ſo long as the Church is mounted upon the Prelatical Cart, and not as it ought, between the hands of the Miniſters, it will but ſhate and totter; and he that ſets to his hand, though with a good intent to hinder the ſhogging of it, in this unlawful Waggonry wherein it rides, let him beware it be not fatal to him as it was to Uzza.”

   “She carefully attended to the ſhews of things, and her opinions, I ſhould have ſaid prejudices, were ſuch as the generality approved of.”

   “I NEXT paſſed into the choir; a ſcene of transformation indeed! I had been accuſtomed to contemplate here a far different order of things. Our profeſſional Merlins have waved their wands to ſome purpoſe; and all view, as their familiars invited me to believe, was to be given up to the momentary glance at an Eidophuſicon ſhew of the Reſurrection filling the Eaſt window in that ſpot late our Lady’s chapel, now the termination of the choir.”

name

1. A surname.