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What's The Definition Of Shower?

\Show"er\, n. 1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. [Obs.] --Wyclif.
\Show"er\, n. [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.
\Show"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Showered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Showering}.] 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.
\Show"er\, v. i. To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers. --Shak.