"shew" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ʃoʊ/ [General-American], /ʃəʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shew.wav [Southern-England] Forms: shews [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊ Head templates: {{en-noun}} shew (plural shews)
  1. Archaic spelling of show. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: show Derived forms: shew bread, shew-bread, shewey, shewy, shew stone
    Sense id: en-shew-en-noun-YjXg0gYx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ʃoʊ/ [General-American], /ʃəʊ/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-shew.wav [Southern-England] Forms: shews [present, singular, third-person], shewing [participle, present], shewed [past], shewn [participle, past], shewed [participle, past], shewen [obsolete, participle, past]
Rhymes: -əʊ Head templates: {{en-verb||||shewn|past_ptc2=shewed|past_ptc3=shewen|past_ptc3_qual=obsolete}} shew (third-person singular simple present shews, present participle shewing, simple past shewed, past participle shewn or shewed or (obsolete) shewen)
  1. Archaic spelling of show. Tags: alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: show Derived forms: shew forth
    Sense id: en-shew-en-verb-YjXg0gYx
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

IPA: /ʃuː/ [Received-Pronunciation]
Rhymes: -uː Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} shew
  1. (East Anglia) simple past of show Tags: East-Anglia, form-of, past Form of: show
    Sense id: en-shew-en-verb-mtf12b-A Categories (other): East Anglian English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 16 10 65 9 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 12 8 73 7
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Verb

Forms: shews [present, singular, third-person], shewing [participle, present], shewed [participle, past], shewed [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb}} shew (third-person singular simple present shews, present participle shewing, simple past and past participle shewed)
  1. Nonstandard spelling of shoo. Tags: alt-of, nonstandard Alternative form of: shoo
    Sense id: en-shew-en-verb-lMlJuUG2
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 3

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1803 December, an Architect, “The Pursuits of Architectural Innovation. No. LXVI. Salisbury Cathedral continued.”, in The Gentleman’s Magazine, London: […] Nichols and Son, […], page 1122, column 1",
          "text": "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.",
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