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A sound intermediate between a vowel and a consonant, or partaking of the nature of both, as in the English w and y.

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.

Full of showers. Tennyson.

Quality of being showery.

Rainless; freo from showers.

Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.

A large, fat variety of the namaycusa found in Lake Superior; - - called also siskawet, siskiwit.

Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. [Obs.] Shak.

A nutritious article of food, much used in Scotland, made from the husk of the oat by a process not unlike that by which common starch is made; -- called flummery in England. [Written also sowans, and sowins.]

One who, or that which, sows.

The yautia.

Any plant of the genus Helianthus; -- so called probably from the form and color of its flower, which is large disk with yellow rays. The commonly cultivated sunflower is Helianthus annuus, a native of America.

Kansas; a nickname.

One who swallows; also, a glutton. Tatler.

An animal which produces tallow.

ld sit impatiently thinking with what an unusual amount of noise the oars worked in the thowels. Dickens.

Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.

A turning lathe. [Prov. Eng.]

One who throws. Specifically: (a) One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. (b) One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.

A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.