SHOWER
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Show"er (?), n. 1. One who shows or exhibits.
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2. That which shows; a mirror. [Obs.] Wyclif.
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Show"er (?), n. [OE. shour, schour, AS. se&unr_;r; akin to D. schoer, G. schauer, OHG. sc&unr_;r, Icel. sk&unr_;r, Sw. skur, Goth. sk&unr_;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.
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In drought or else showers.
Chaucer.
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Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers.
Milton.
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2. That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
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With showers of stones he drives them far away.
Pope.
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3. A copious supply bestowed. [R.]
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He and myself
Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts.
Shak.
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Shower bath, a bath in which water is showered from above, and sometimes from the sides also.
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Show"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Showered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Showering.] 1. To water with a shower; to &unr_;&unr_;t copiously with rain.
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Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth.
Milton.
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2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in &unr_;undance; to rain. Shak.
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C&unr_;sar's favor,
That showers down greatness on his friends.
Addison.
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Show"er, v. i. To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers. Shak.
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