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Shower   /ʃˈaʊər/   Listen
noun
Shower  n.  
1.
One who shows or exhibits.
2.
That which shows; a mirror. (Obs.)



Shower  n.  
1.
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."
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."
3.
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)  
1.
To water with a shower. "Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth."
2.
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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Shower" Quotes from Famous Books



... heartiness, and then added in a playful manner that, although the concert was over, he was weather-bound on account of the shower, and would therefore try to compensate them for giving him shelter by relating a curious story which was not only founded on fact, but all fact; and he soon had both of his auditors deeply interested in one of those strange and varied experiences which occasionally occur in real ...
— A Knight Of The Nineteenth Century • E. P. Roe

... Sucks from the hills where buried armies lie, So that the dreamy passion it imparts Is drawn from heroes' bones and lovers' hearts. But lulls will come; the flashing soul transmits Its gleams of light in alternating fits. The shower of talk that rattled down amain Ends in small ...
— The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Complete • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... first genial days of spring which seem to affect the animal not less than the vegetable creation. At such times even I, sedentary as I am, feel a craving for the open air and sunshine, and creep out as instinctively as snails after a shower. Such seasons, which have an exhilarating effect upon youth, produce a soothing one when we are advanced in life. The root of an ash tree, on the bank which bends round the little bay, had been half ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, No. 388 - Vol. 14, No. 388, Saturday, September 5, 1829. • Various

... Boyd, the reputed author of Junius, Sir William Chambers, and other distinguished characters. He gave occasionally, though rarely, a dinner party; and on one occasion, when his guests were detained by a thunder shower, he got up a dance, and carried the ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving

... would not keep the rain from wetting you should there come up a sudden shower. You must have it in, no matter what you leave ...
— Pixy's Holiday Journey • George Lang


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