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.
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.