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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

... shoe-maker in his shop tugs gently at the threads of illusion: how promptly up and down the lanes and streets the thing begins to rage; men, women, boys and children, fall upon one another like mad and blind; and the crack-brained spirit is not to be laid until a shower fall of blows—a shower of blows, kicks and cudgel-thwacks, to smother the angry conflagration. God knows how it all came about?" He smiles again, reflectively, over the recollection of the lovely quiet evening it was, ...

— The Wagnerian Romances • Gertrude Hall

... shakes his head and smiles, as if his silence should say, I could and will not. And when himself is praised without excess, he complains that such imperfect kindness hath not done him right. If but an unseasonable shower cross his recreation, he is ready to fall out with heaven, and thinks he is wronged if God will not take his times when to rain, when to shine. He is a slave to envy, and loseth flesh with fretting—not so much ...

— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various

... find the softest board in the floor and went to sleep. Some of the boys found pleasure in arousing me with a shower ...

— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever

... kings leaue was buried in the cathedrall church, manie lamenting his destinie; but his head was set on a pole aloft on the wals for a certeine space, till by the kings permission [after the same had suffered manie a hot sunnie daie, and manie a wet shower of raine] it was taken downe and buried togither ...

— Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) - Henrie IV • Raphael Holinshed

... ceremony and a shower of company jokes that I did not follow, an enormous Ally Sloper top-hat was produced, into which numbers and blanks were dropped, and the whole was handed round to the riders by a private, evidently ...

— Traffics and Discoveries • Rudyard Kipling

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