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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.

Full of showers. Tennyson.

Quality of being showery.

Rainless; freo from showers.

Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain.

One who predicts.

A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.

Any curvature in the form of an arch; as, the arch of the aorta. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton. Triumphal arch, a monumental structure resembling an arched gateway, with one or more passages, erected to commemorate a triumph.

ing of arrows. How quick they wheeled, and flying, behind them shot Sharp sleet of arrowy showers. Milton.

Showery; characterized by brashes, or showers.

Wrinkled; puckered. Showers soon drench the camlet's cockled grain. Gay.

es consistent with virtue, piety, and truth, let not little critics exalt themselves, and shower down their ill nature. I. Watts. You know who the critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. Beaconsfield.

A culverin. Falcon and culver on each tower Stood prompt their deadly hail to shower. Sir W. Scott.

A misty shower; dew. [Obs.]

To allay; to temper. [Obs.] The watery showers delay the raging wind. Surrey.

To drop; to fall in drops; to trickle. Soft showers distilled, and suns grew warm in vain. Pope.

A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.

ade of, or resembling, down. Hence, figuratively: Soft; placid; soothing; quiet. "A downy shower." Keble. "Downy pillow." Pope. Time steals on with downy feet. Young.

A drizzling shower; a falling or leaking in drops. [Colloq.]

To let fall in drops. Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain. Swift.