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noun

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.

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Etymology of 'Shower bath'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shower bath" Quotes from Famous Books

... be expected, considerable water got on the two children, and when Snap shook himself, as he often did, to get some of the drops off his shaggy coat, he gave Flossie and her clean dress a regular shower bath. ...

— The Bobbsey Twins at School • Laura Lee Hope

... The best form of bath is either the tub or the shower bath; and the cooler the water, provided that you warm up to it quickly and pleasantly, the greater the tonic effect, the more exhilaration and pleasure you will get out of it, and the more it will harden ...

— A Handbook of Health • Woods Hutchinson

... everywhere at once, scolding, warning, and encouraging in a breath, and the play took on a snap and vim which Wesley Blair, unassisted, had not been able to introduce. After it was over, Joel trotted back with the others to the gymnasium and took his first shower bath. On the steps outside was West, and the two boys took their way together to the ...

— The Half-Back • Ralph Henry Barbour

... bath made of tin and of iron, and these combined with the showering apparatus. The shower baths are variously constructed, and some of them are of finished workmanship and costly material. Stebbin's Patent Furniture shower Bath presents itself first in the form of a very convenient washstand, with all its out fit; it is next easily converted into a work stand; with equal dispatch it assumes the form of a shower bath, furnished ...

— Scientific American magazine Vol 2. No. 3 Oct 10 1846 • Various

... borne, has cured a sore throat in one night. Persons that have been afflicted for years with repeated attacks of sore throat and quinsy, have been cured by bathing the throat, neck and ears with cold water every morning. The constant use of the shower bath is very important. ...

— Domestic Cookery, Useful Receipts, and Hints to Young Housekeepers • Elizabeth E. Lea

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