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Shower

Shower (shower)
n.(?)
Show"er
  1. One who shows or exhibits.
  2. That which shows; a mirror.
    [Obs.] Wyclif.

Shower

Shower (shower)
n.(?)
Show"er
[OE. shour, schour, AS. se(?)r; akin to D. schoer, G. schauer, OHG. sc(?)r, Icel. sk(?)r, Sw. skur, Goth. sk(?)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.

    In drought or else showers. Chaucer.

    Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. Milton.

  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. Pope.

  3. A copious supply bestowed.
    [R.]

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

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

Shower

Shower (shower)
v. t.
Show"er
  1. To water with a shower] to (?)(?)t copiously with rain.

    Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth. Milton.

  2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in (?)undance; to rain.
    Shak.

    C(?)sar's favor,
    That showers down greatness on his friends.     Addison.

Shower

Shower (shower)
v. i.
Show"er
  1. To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
    Shak.












Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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