shower
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1. shower - Noun
2. shower - Verb
Meaning
One who shows or exhibits.
That which shows; a mirror.
A fall or rain or hail of short duration; sometimes, but rarely, a like fall of snow.
That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly.
A copious supply bestowed.
To water with a shower; to //t copiously with rain.
To bestow liberally; to destribute or scatter in /undance; to rain.
To rain in showers; to fall, as in a hower or showers.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
The pop artists did images that anybody walking down Broadway could recognize in a split second - comics, picnic tables, men's trousers, celebrities, shower curtains, refrigerators, Coke bottles. All the great modern things that the Abstract Expressionists tried not to notice at all.
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
A father deserted by a wise son is like being caught in a shower without a felt.
The favor of a man in power is like a summer shower.
A heavy shower is soon over.