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

Shower
(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.

Csar's favor,
That showers down greatness on his friends.
Addison.

Shower
(Show"er), v. i. To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers. Shak.

Showerful
(Show"er*ful) a. Full of showers. Tennyson.

Showeriness
(Show"er*i*ness) n. Quality of being showery.

Showerless
(Show"er*less), a. Rainless; freo from showers.

Showery
(Show"er*y) a.

1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.

2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.

Showily
(Show"i*ly) adv. In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.

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.


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