'Shower bath' definitions:
Definition of 'shower bath'
From: WordNet
noun
Booth for washing yourself, usually in a bathroom [syn: shower stall, shower bath]
noun
Washing yourself by standing upright under water sprayed from a nozzle; "he took a shower after the game" [syn: shower, shower bath]
Definition of 'Shower bath'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- In drought or else showers. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly. [1913 Webster]
- With showers of stones he drives them far away. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A copious supply bestowed. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- He and myself Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Shower bath, a bath in which water is showered from above, and sometimes from the sides also. [1913 Webster]