shower bath

2 definitions found

shower bath - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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              In drought or else showers.           --Chaucer.
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              Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers.
                                                    --Milton.
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     2. That which resembles a shower in falling or passing
        through the air copiously and rapidly.
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              With showers of stones he drives them far away.
                                                    --Pope.
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     3. A copious supply bestowed. [R.]
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              He and myself
              Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts.
                                                    --Shak.
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     Shower bath, a bath in which water is showered from above,
        and sometimes from the sides also.
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shower bath - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  shower bath
      n 1: booth for washing yourself, usually in a bathroom [syn:
           shower stall, shower bath]
      2: washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from
         a nozzle; "he took a shower after the game" [syn: shower,
         shower bath]