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Found 6 hits - Term: shower, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shower \show"er\, n.
   1. one who shows or exhibits.
      1913 webster

   2. that which shows; a mirror. obs. --wyclif.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shower \show"er\, n. oe. shour, schour, as. se?r; akin to d.
   schoer, g. schauer, ohg. sc?r, icel. sk?r, sw. skur, goth.
   sk?ra 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.
      1913 webster

            in drought or else showers.           --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. 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.
                                                  --pope.
      1913 webster

   3. a copious supply bestowed. r.
      1913 webster

            he and myself
            have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   shower bath, a bath in which water is showered from above,
      and sometimes from the sides also.
      1913 webster
see also:
shower bath 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
      1913 webster

            lest it again dissolve and shower the earth.
                                                  --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. to bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in ?undance;
      to rain. --shak.
      1913 webster

            c?sar's favor,
            that showers down greatness on his friends.
                                                  --addison.
      1913 webster
see also:
showered showering 
[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
shower \show"er\, v. i.
   to rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
   --shak.
   1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
shower
     n 1: a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you; "they
          installed a shower in the bathroom"
     2: washing yourself in a shower; you stand upright under water
        sprayed from a nozzle; "he took a shower after the game"
        syn: shower bath
     3: a brief period of precipitation; "the game was interrupted
        by a brief shower" syn: rain shower
     4: a sudden downpour as of tears or sparks etc likened to a
        rain shower; "a little shower of rose petals"; "a sudden
        cascade of sparks" syn: cascade
     5: someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see syn: exhibitor,
         exhibitioner
     6: a party of friends assembled to present gifts usually of a
        specified kind to a person; "her friends organized a baby
        shower for her when she was expecting"
     v 1: expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns; "he was
          showered with praise" syn: lavish
     2: spray or sprinkle with; "the guests showered rice on the
        couple"
     3: take a shower; wash one's body in the shower; "you should
        shower after vigorous exercise"
     4: rain abundantly; "meteors showered down over half of
        australia" syn: shower down
     5: provide abundantly with; "he showered her with presents"
see also:
shower bath rain shower cascade exhibitor exhibitioner lavish 
shower down 
[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
309 moby thesaurus words for "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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