shower, 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.].

A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow. [1913 Webster]
"In drought or else showers." [1913 Webster]

"Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers." [1913 Webster]
That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly. [1913 Webster]
"With showers of stones he drives them far away." [1913 Webster]
A copious supply bestowed. [1913 Webster]
"He and myself
Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts." [1913 Webster]

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

shower, v. t.

To water with a shower; to 1913 Webster]
"Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth." [1913 Webster]
To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in Shak. [1913 Webster]
"C That showers down greatness on his friends." [1913 Webster]

shower, v. i.

To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers. Shak. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

shower, n. & v.
--n.
1 a brief fall of esp. rain, hail, sleet, or snow.
2 a a brisk flurry of arrows, bullets, dust, stones, sparks, etc. b a similar flurry of gifts, letters, honours, praise, etc.
3 (in full shower-bath) a a cubicle, bath, etc. in which one stands under a spray of water. b the apparatus etc. used for this. c the act of bathing in a shower.
4 a group of particles initiated by a cosmic-ray particle in the earth's atmosphere.
5 US a party for giving presents to a prospective bride, etc.
6 Brit. sl. a contemptible or unpleasant person or group of people.
--v.
1 tr. discharge (water, missiles, etc.) in a shower.
2 intr. use a shower-bath.
3 tr. (usu. foll. by on, upon) lavishly bestow (gifts etc.).
4 intr. descend or come in a shower (it showered on and off all day).

Derivative

showery adj.

Etymology

OE scur f. Gmc

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THESAURUS

shower

Finnish bath, Japanese bath, Kaffeeklatsch, Russian bath, Scotch mist, Swedish bath, Turkish bath, abound, abundance, accord, administer, aerosol, affluence, afford, allot, allow, ample sufficiency, ampleness, amplitude, aquamanile, aspergil, aspergillum, atomizer, automatic dishwasher, avalanche, award, ball, baptize, barrage, basin, bath, bathe, bathtub, bestow, bestow on, bidet, blood rain, blowout, bombard, bombardment, bonanza, bountifulness, bountiousness, bristle with, broadside, bumper crop, burst, cannonade, clyster, cocktail party, coffee klatch, cold shower, communicate, concentrate sprayer, confer, copiousness, costume party, crawl with, creep with, deal, deal out, deluge, descend, dinner, dinner party, dish out, dishpan, dishwasher, dispense, dole, dole out, donate, donation party, douche, drizzle, drop, drum, drumfire, enema, entertainment, evening mist, ewer, extend, extravagance, exuberance, exuberate, fall, fertility, festivity, finger bowl, flood, flow, flurry, flush, flush out, foam, foison, fork out, fountain syringe, froth, full measure, fullness, fusillade, garden party, gargle, generosity, generousness, gift, gift with, give, give freely, give out, gout of rain, grant, great abundance, great plenty, gush, hail, hand out, heap, help to, hen party, hip bath, holystone, house party, house-raising, housewarming, hummum, impart, inundate, irrigate, issue, kitchen sink, landslide, lather, launder, lavabo, lavatory, lave, lavish, lavishness, lawn party, let have, liberality, liberalness, lots, luxuriance, mask, masque, masquerade, masquerade party, maximum, mete, mete out, mist, mist concentrate sprayer, misty rain, mizzle, moisture, mop, mop up, more than enough, much, myriad, myriads, needle bath, nozzle, numerousness, offer, opulence, opulency, outpouring, overflow, overwhelm, party, patter, pelt, piscina, pitter-patter, plash, plenitude, plenteousness, plentifulness, plenty, plunge bath, pour, pour with rain, precipitate, precipitation, present, prevalence, prodigality, productiveness, proffer, profuseness, profusion, proliferate, quantities, rain, rain tadpoles, raindrop, rainfall, rainwater, render, repleteness, repletion, rich harvest, rich vein, richness, rinse, rinse out, riot, riotousness, ritually immerse, run over, salvo, sauna, sauna bath, scads, scour, scrub, scrub up, serve, shampoo, shatter, sheet of rain, shell out, shindig, shindy, shower bath, shower curtain, shower down, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, sitz bath, slip, slosh, sluice, sluice out, smoker, snow, soap, sparge, sparger, spate, spatter, spindrift, spit, splash, splatter, sponge, sponge bath, spray, spray can, sprayer, sprinkle, sprinkler, sprinkler head, sprinkling, sprinkling system, spume, stag, stag party, storm, stream, substantiality, substantialness, superabundance, surprise party, swab, swarm with, swash, sweat bath, syringe, tattoo, teem, teem with, teemingness, tender, toivel, torrent, tub, unfrozen hydrometeor, vouchsafe, wash, wash barrel, wash boiler, wash out, wash up, washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washer, washing machine, washing pot, washpot, washstand, washtub, watercart, watering can, watering pot, wealth, weep, wet, whirlpool bath, yield

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ROGET THESAURUS

shower

Assemblage

N assemblage, collection, collocation, colligation, compilation, levy, gathering, ingathering, muster, attroupement, team, concourse, conflux, congregation, contesseration, convergence, meeting, levee, reunion, drawing room, at home, conversazione, assembly, congress, convention, conventicle, gemote, conclave, posse, posse comitatus, Noah's ark, miscellany, collectanea, museum, menagerie, museology, crowd, throng, group, flood, rush, deluge, rabble, mob, press, crush, cohue, horde, body, tribe, crew, gang, knot, squad, band, party, swarm, shoal, school, covey, flock, herd, drove, atajo, bunch, drive, force, mulada, remuda, roundup, array, bevy, galaxy, corps, company, troop, troupe, task force, army, regiment, host, populousness, clan, brotherhood, fraternity, sorority, association, volley, shower, storm, cloud, group, cluster, Pleiades, clump, pencil, set, batch, lot, pack, budget, assortment, bunch, parcel, packet, package, bundle, fascine, fasces, bale, seron, seroon, fagot, wisp, truss, tuft, shock, rick, fardel, stack, sheaf, haycock, fascicle, fascicule, fasciculus, gavel, hattock, stook, accumulation, congeries, heap, lump, pile, rouleau, tissue, mass, pyramid, bing, drift, snowball, snowdrift, acervation, cumulation, glomeration, agglomeration, conglobation, conglomeration, conglomerate, coacervate, coacervation, coagmentation, aggregation, concentration, congestion, omnium gaterum, spicilegium, black hole of Calcutta, quantity, collector, gatherer, whip, whipper in, assembled, closely packed, dense, serried, crowded to suffocation, teeming, swarming, populous, as thick as hops, all of a heap, fasciculated cumulative, the plot thickens, acervatim, tibi seris tibi metis.

River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.

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