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shower
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Word definitions for shower in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Shower \Show"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Showered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Showering .] To water with a shower; to ??t copiously with rain. Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth. --Milton. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in ?undance; to rain. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 A brief fall of precipitation. 2 A device for bathe by which water is made to fall on the body from a height, either from a tank or by the action of a pump. 3 An instance of using of this device in order to bathe oneself. 4 A quantity of ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English scur "a short fall of rain, storm, tempest; fall of missiles or blows; struggle, commotion; breeze," from Proto-Germanic *skuraz (cognates: Old Norse skur , Old Saxon and Old Frisian scur "fit of illness;" Old High German scur , German Schauer ...
Usage examples of shower.
Only the showers, which accumulate a deep layer, are apt to be retained on the surface of the country.
One of the stones knocked heavily against his cranium, sending a shower of pain stars down the affinity link to daze Powel.
Spencer Howell, fresh from the shower and wearing a pink negligee, stood in the door of her bathroom and brushed her hair, waiting for Lieutenant Colonel Ed Banning to notice her.
The morning of April 30th, he showered and shaved and, after some consideration, put on his barnstorming outfit instead of his civilian go-to-Sunday-meeting clothes.
Many showed no magical power at all, and Avelyn soon realized that these were the remnants of previous showers, brought up to the surface by the battering of the storm.
Over the sound of the shower he heard her humming one of the all-alike bouzouki tunes from their honeymoon radio in the Honda.
Miss Brekker, who had a cab waiting downstairs, I showered and dressed and went to Dr.
James showered a sack of whimsical breloques among a scrambling crowd of laughing beauties.
The Duc grinned broadly as he rode, the ends of his burnouse trailing at the base of a conical steel helm, and his riders wheeled and turned like a flock of starlings, releasing a deadly shower of arrows.
The Due grinned broadly as he rode, the ends of his burnouse trailing at the base of a conical steel helm, and his riders wheeled and turned like a flock of starlings, releasing a deadly shower of arrows.
I propped myself against the wall in the shower, hoping the hydrotherapy would mend my skewed circuits.
Granny Friday night, getting up before dawn on Saturday to hit the rain forest trail with Joe-Pie in search of the elusive stinging mashasha nettle and wild dumbcane, a Caribbean dieffenbachia that flourished only in the deep shade of the upper rain forest, then working with Granny again well into Saturday night doctoring a stick of gum, a long hot shower and then bed were all Selene was thinking about when Rutherford Macintosh delivered her back to the Kings Frederick and Christian Arms shortly before midnight.
Thenceforth for some weeks backward and forward rush mysterious men with no names, who fly about all those particular parts of the country on which Doodle is at present throwing himself in an auriferous and malty shower, but who are merely persons of a restless disposition and never do anything anywhere.
Presently a shower of flaming arrows, trailing tails of black smoke, whistled into the mantlets and thudded into the bare, green decks.
The rain had lifted a little and the sun shone out on the bloom of the lovely parterre where the Marches profited by a smiling moment to wander among the statues and the roses heavy with the shower.