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.
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.
