Shower

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A light, or moderately heavy, fall of rain, hail, or sleet; used absolutely, a fall of rain.
  • noun. Figuratively, a full of any liquid in drops, or of solid objects in large number.
  • noun. A copious supply bestowed; liberal distribution.
  • noun. In pyrotechny, a device in which small stars of a slow-burning composition fall from rockets or shells, presenting the appearance of a shower of fire.
  • noun. An attack; an assault; a conflict; a battle.
  • To water with or as with a shower; wet copiously with rain.
  • Hence, to wet copiously with water or other liquid in the form of spray or in drops: as, to shower plants from a watering-pot; to shower one's head in bathing; to shower a convict as a punishment.
  • To discharge in a shower; pour down copiously and rapidly; bestow liberally; distribute or scatter in abundance.
  • To rain in showers; fall as a shower: as, tears showered down his cheeks.
  • noun. One who or that which shows or exhibits.
  • noun. A looking-glass; a mirror.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who shows or exhibits.
  • noun. That which shows; a mirror.
  • noun. A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
  • noun. That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
  • noun. A copious supply bestowed.
  • noun. a bath in which water is showered from above, and sometimes from the sides also.
  • transitive verb. To water with a shower; to ��t copiously with rain.
  • transitive verb. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in �undance; to rain.
  • intransitive verb. To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who shows.
  • noun. A man whose penis appears full size both when flaccid and when erect.
  • noun. A brief fall of precipitation.
  • noun. A device for bathing by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump.
  • noun. An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself.
  • noun. A quantity of something that has characteristics of a rain shower.
  • noun. A party associated with a significant event in a person's life, at which the person usually receives gifts.
  • noun. A battle, an attack; conflict.
  • noun. A shower of shit.
  • noun. Used as an intensifying pluralizer or intensifier
  • verb. To spray with (a specified liquid).
  • verb. To bathe using a shower.
  • verb. to bestow liberally, to give or distribute in abundance
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a brief period of precipitation
  • verb. rain abundantly
  • verb. expend profusely; also used with abstract nouns
  • verb. provide abundantly with
  • verb. spray or sprinkle with
  • verb. take a shower; wash one's body in the shower
  • noun. someone who organizes an exhibit for others to see
  • noun. a party of friends assembled to present gifts (usually of a specified kind) to a person
  • noun. washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle
  • noun. a sudden downpour (as of tears or sparks etc) likened to a rain shower
  • noun. a plumbing fixture that sprays water over you
  • Word Usage
    "Predicting the outcome of a triathlon race, because results can turn on factors as unforeseeable as a flat tire or a sudden rain shower, is a fool's undertaking."
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    bathe  bathing  cater  consume  descent  
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    Auer  Bower  Gower  Power  bower  
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    bath  blast  breeze  cloud  drop  
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