\Show"er\, n.
1. One who shows or exhibits.
2. That which shows; a mirror. [Obs.] --Wyclif.

\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.

\Show"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Showered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Showering}.]
1. To water with a shower; to ??t copiously with rain.
         Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth.
                                               --Milton.
2. To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in ?undance;
   to rain. --Shak.
         C?sar's favor, That showers down greatness on his
         friends.                              --Addison.

\Show"er\, v. i.
To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
--Shak.