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showery, a.|ˈʃaʊərɪ|
[f. shower n.1 + -y.]
1. Raining in showers; abounding with or characterized by frequent showers of rain.
1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Lloviznar, to drizle, to be showry. 1626Bacon Sylva §548 In a Showry Season. 1652Heylyn Cosmogr. iv. 138 The Aire hereof is very shewery. 1773Cook 2nd Voy. ii. xi. (1777) I. 317 On the 23d showery weather. 1854Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1870) I. 140 It continued showery all day. 1885H. Finch-Hatton Advance Australia! 173 The weather..had been, as they say in the west of Scotland, ‘showery and rain atween whiles’.
b. fig. Tearful.
1847Tennyson Princess Concl. 33 She fixt A showery glance upon her aunt.
2. Causing or producing showers; bringing showers. Said of a cloud, wind, constellation, etc.
1697Dryden æneid ix. 909 Like the Storm that flies From Westward, when the Show'ry Kids arise. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-bks. II. 200 The showery clouds that haunt a hill-country. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xxvi. 2 'Tis not showery south, nor airy wester.
3. Pertaining to, produced by or resembling a shower or showers.
1667Milton P.L. vi. 759 Inlaid with pure Amber, and colours of the showrie Arch. 1729Savage Wanderer ii. 70 Bright It collects the Beams, which, trembling All, Back from the God, a show'ry Radiance, fall. 1791Cowper Iliad iv. 509 The waves..scatter far the show'ry spray. 1833Tennyson Lotos-Eaters 17 Dew'd with showery drops, Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse. 1853O. W. Holmes Poem Amer. Med. Assoc. 78 The selfsame founts her chalice fill With showery sunlight running over.
4. Falling in showers.
1841–6Longfellow Rain in Summer ix, Aquarius old..Scattering every where The showery rain. |