Show"er (?), n.
1.
One who shows or exhibits.
2.
That which shows; a mirror.
[Obs.]
Wyclif.
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Show"er (?), n. [OE. shour, schour, AS. ser; akin to D. schoer, G. schauer, OHG. scr, Icel. skr, Sw. skur, Goth. skra 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.
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.
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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 distribute or scatter in abundance; to rain.
Shak.
Caesar'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 shower or showers.
Shak.
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