show bill (shobil)

A placard or other advertisement, usually printed, containing an announcement of goods for sale; also, such a placard announcing a show. show-box (shō'boks), n. some object or objects of curiosity exhibited as a show, as the box for a Punch and Judy show. A box containing IMG:content-0951.png:[blocks in formation] Of their Fruits, Ananas is reckoned one of the best, in taste like an Apricocke, in shew a farre off like an Artichoke, but without prickles, very sweete of sent. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 505. Nor was this opinion destitute of a show of reason. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., vi. His intellectual eye pierces instantly beneath the shows of things to the things themselves, and seems almost to behold truth in clear vision. Whipple , E . and Rev., I. 22. 3. Ostentatious display; parade; pomp. Plain without pomp, and rich without a show . Dryden, Flower and Leaf, 1. 187. In the middle ages, the love of show was carried to an extravagant length. Strutt , Sports and Pastimes, p. 24. The city [Geneva] itself makes the noblest show of any in the world. Add is on , Remarks on Italy (Works, ed. Bohn, I. 362). 4. A sight or spectacle; an exhibition; a pageant; a play: as, the Lord Mayor's show; specifically, that which is shown for money: as, a traveling show; a flower - show; a cattle-show. Some delightful ostentation, or show, or pageant, or antique, or firework. Shak., L. L. L., v. 1. 118. Was my Lo. Maior's shew, with a number of sumptuous Evelyn, Diary, Oct. 29, 1662. Gay. pageants, speeches, and verses. Here raree shows are seen, and Punche's Feats, And Pocket's pick'd in Crouds and various Cheats. The shrill call, acro the general din, "Roll up your curtain! Let the show begin!" Whittier , The Panorama. 5. A feint; a deceptive or plausible appearance; a pretense of something, designed to mislead; pretext. In shew to keepe the straits, in deed to expect the euent. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 386. Beware of the scribes, which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers. Luke xx. 47. him? Pull the string, ruling pa ion the picture will show him. Burns, Fragment Inscribed to Fox.