Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SHOW, v.t. [pret. showed; pp. shown or showed. It is sometimes written shew, shewed, shewn. Sax. sceawian; D. schouwen; G. schauen; Dan. skuer. This word in most of the Teutonic dialects, signifies merely to look, see, view, behold. In Saxon it signifies to show, look, view, explore, regard. This is doubtless a contracted word. If the radical letter lost was a labial, show coincides with the Gr. σκοπεω, σκεπτομαι. If a dental has been lost, this word accords with the Sw. skåda, to view or behold.]

1. To exhibit or present to the view of others. Go thy way, show thyself to the priest. Matth. viii.
2. To afford to the eye or to notice; to contain in a visible form. Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise / Magnificence; and what can heaven show more? – Milton.
3. To make or enable to see. – Milton.
4. To make or enable to perceive. – Milton.
5. To make to know; to cause to understand; to make known to; to teach or inform. – Job x. Know, I am sent / To show thee what shall come in future days. – Milton.
6. To prove; to manifest. I'll shove my duty by my timely care. – Dryden.
7. To inform; to teach; with of. The time cometh when I shall no more speak to you in proverbs, but I shall show you plainly of the Father. – John xvi.
8. To point out, as a guide. Thou shalt show them the way in which they must walk. – Exod. xviii.
9. To bestow; to confer; to afford; as, to show favor or mercy on any person. – Ps. cxii. 5.
10. To prove by evidence, testimony or authentic registers or documents. They could not show their father's house. – Ezra ii.
11. To disclose; to make known. I durst not show you mine opinion. – Job xxxii.
12. To discover; to explain; as, to show a dream or interpretation. – Dan. ii. To show forth, to manifest; to publish; to proclaim. – 1 Pet. ii.