shower

n. 1. One who shows or exhibits. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which shows; a mirror. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Showered p. pr. & vb. n. Showering. ] 1. To water with a shower; to &unr_;&unr_;t copiously with rain. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in &unr_;undance; to rain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

C&unr_;sar's favor,
That showers down greatness on his friends. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. shour, schour, AS. se&unr_;r; akin to D. schoer, G. schauer, OHG. sc&unr_;r, Icel. sk&unr_;r, Sw. skur, Goth. sk&unr_;ra windis 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

In drought or else showers. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly. [ 1913 Webster ]

With showers of stones he drives them far away. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A copious supply bestowed. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He and myself
Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shower bath, a bath in which water is showered from above, and sometimes from the sides also. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Full of showers. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being showery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rainless; freo from showers. [ 1913 Webster ]