Shower /(?)/

Show·er

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.

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

Shower

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.
  2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in undance; to rain.
    Csar's favor, That showers down greatness on his friends.

Shower

v. i.
  1. To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.