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The company was ushered in to a table covered with the most elegant art and the greatest profusion; all that the silver-smith, the shewer, the confectioner, or the cook could produce.

From The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter by Burnaby, William

Be shewer and leave a pattern by the side of the cross road, if you sal be dare before me.

From Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement by Smith, George

That's right; steady on thy legs, and right arm out as straight as a shewer.

From North and South by Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn

Another manner, upon lines rebounded again: when the likeness of a thing cometh therefrom to a shewer, and is bent, and re-boundeth from the shewer to the sight.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert

A tumbler, juggler, or shewer of tricks; perhaps because they lure the people, as a faulconer does his hawks.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Grose, Francis