Category:Shower

Show"er, n.

1. One who shows or exhibits.

2. That which shows; a mirror. [obs.] Wyclif.

Shower Show"er, n. Etym: [oe. shour, schour, as. se; akin to d. schoer, g. Schauer, ohg. sc, icel. sk, sw. skur, goth. sk a storm of wind; of Uncertain origin.]

1. A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a Like fall of snow. In drought or else showers. Chaucer. Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. Milton.

2. That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the Air copiously and rapidly. With showers of stones he drives them far away. Pope.

3. A copious supply bestowed. [r.] He and myself have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts. Shak. Shower bath, a bath in which water is showered from above, and Sometimes from the sides also.

Shower Show"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Showered; p. pr. & vb. n. Showering.]

1. To water with a shower; to Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth. Milton.

2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in shak. Cshowers down greatness on his friends. Addison.

Shower Show"er, v. i.

Defn: to rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers. Shak.