Shower
Shower , noun
1.
One who shows or exhibits.
2.
That which shows; a mirror. [Obsolete] — Wyclif
Shower , noun
[Old English shour, schour, Anglo-Saxon se{not transcribed}r; akin to Dutch schoer, German schauer, Old High German sc{not transcribed}r, Icelandic sk{not transcribed}r, Swedish skur, Gothic sk{not transcribed}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.
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. [Rare]
He and myself
Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts.
Collocations (1)
Shower bath , a bath in which water is showered from above, and sometimes from the sides also.
Shower , transitive verb
1.
To water with a shower; to wet copiously with rain.
Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth.
2.
To bestow liberally; to distribute or scatter in abundance; to rain. — Shakespeare
Caesar's favor,
That showers down greatness on his friends.
Shower , intransitive verb
To rain in showers; to fall, as in a shower or showers. — Shakespeare