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Pronunciation : Show"er
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 1. One who shows or exhibits.

2. That which shows; a mirror. [Obs.] Wyclif.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Show"er
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. shour, schour, AS. se; akin to D. schoer, G. schauer, OHG. sc, Icel. sk, Sw. skur, Goth. sk a storm of wind; of uncertain origin.]
Definition : 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Show"er
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To water with a shower; to Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth. Milton.

2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in Shak. Cshowers down greatness on his friends. Addison.

t. [imp. & p. p. Showered; p. pr. & vb. n. Showering.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Show"er
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : Defn: To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers. Shak.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913