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noun

Shower n.

One who shows or exhibits.

That which shows; a mirror. (Obs.)

Shower n.

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

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

A copious supply bestowed. (R.) "He and myself Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts."

Shower bath, a bath in which water is showered from above, and sometimes from the sides also.

verb

Shower v. t. (past & past part. showered; pres. part. showering)

To water with a shower. "Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth."

To bestow liberally; to distribute or scatter in abundance; to rain.

Shower v. i. To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.

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Etymology of 'Shower'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shower" Quotes from Famous Books

... with Mr. Bird to-night, and then I can take you with me before daylight," said Pan as he collected his Romney bundle with his left hand and me with his right and began to pad up the path from the spring-house towards the barn under a shower of the white locust-blossoms, which were giving forth their last breath of perfume in a ...

— The Golden Bird • Maria Thompson Daviess

... your choice, go on board which you please;" and Hardy pointed the stern of the Victory towards a gap between the Redoutable, a 74-gun ship, and the Bucentaure. But the ship moved slowly. The fire upon it was tremendous. One shot drove a shower of splinters upon both Nelson and Hardy; nearly fifty men and officers had been killed or wounded; the Victory's sails were riddled, her studding-sail booms shot off close to the yard-arm, her mizzen-topmast, shot away. At one o'clock, however, the Victory slowly moved past ...

— Deeds that Won the Empire - Historic Battle Scenes • W. H. Fitchett

... length of flowering season to be used in jungle-like masses for summer colour? Second—has it fragrance or decorative quality for house decoration? Thirdly, has it the backbone to stand alone or will the plant flop and flatten shapelessly at the first hard shower and so render an array of conspicuous stakes necessary? Stakes, next to unsightly insecticides and malodorous fertilizers, are the bane of gardening, but that subject is big ...

— The Garden, You, and I • Mabel Osgood Wright

... Stransky down beside the sergeant. Dellarme, as his vision cleared, had just time to see Stransky jerk his hand up to his temple, where there was a red spot, before another shell burst, a little to the rear. This was harmless, as a shrapnel's shower of fragments and bullets carry forward from the point of explosion. But the next burst in front of the line. The doctor's period of idleness was over. One man's rifle shot up as his spine was broken by a jagged piece of shrapnel ...

— The Last Shot • Frederick Palmer

... she suffered mainly from a fit of indigestion consequent on the shower of sweetmeats which fell on her from all hands as the best consolation for her willful little ducking known to sane men and women presumably acquainted with the elements of physiology. She was made restless, too, from excitement by reason of the multiplicity of toys which every one ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, April, 1876. • Various

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