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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Shower

Show′er, n. 1. One who shows or exhibits.

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

Show′er (shou′ẽr), n. [OE. shour, schour, AS. seūr; akin to D. schoer, G. schauer, OHG. scūr, Icel. skūr, Sw. skur, Goth. skūra 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 wet copiously with rain.

Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth. Milton.

2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in abundance; to rain. Shak.

Cæsar'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.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.