What is "shower bath"

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.

   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.

1. n. booth for washing yourself, usually in a bathroom [syn: shower stall]

2. washing yourself in a shower; you stand upright under water sprayed from a nozzle; "he took a shower after the game" [syn: shower]