Word Meanings - SHOWERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.

Related words: (words related to SHOWERY)

• FREQUENTATIVE
  Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
• RAINLESS
  Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region.
• RAIN
  Reign. Spenser.
• RAINFALL
  A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. Hooker.
• RAINY
  Abounding with rain; wet; showery; as, rainy day or season.
• RAINDROP
  A drop of rain.
• RAIN-TIGHT
  So tight as to exclude rain as, a rain-tight roof.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• FREQUENTNESS
  The quality of being frequent.
• FREQUENTATION
  The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort. Chesterfield.
• RAININESS
  The state of being rainy.
• FREQUENTABLE
  Accessible. Sidney.
• ABOUND
  1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• FREQUENT
  1. Often to be met with; happening at short intervals; often repeated or occurring; as, frequent visits. "Frequent feudal towers." Byron. 2. Addicted to any course of conduct; inclined to indulge in any practice; habitual; persistent. He has been
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• FREQUENTAGE
  The practice or habit of frequenting. Southey.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• SHOWERLESS
  Rainless; freo from showers.
• OVERFREQUENT
  Too frequent.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• GRAINED
  Having tubercles or grainlike processes, as the petals or sepals of some flowers. (more info) 1. Having a grain; divided into small particles or grains; showing the grain; hence, rough. 2. Dyed in grain; ingrained. Persons lightly dipped,
• DRAINE
  The missel thrush.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• MORAINIC
  Of or pertaining to a moranie.
• INGRAIN
  1. Dyed with grain, or kermes. 2. Dyed before manufacture, -- said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance. Ingrain carpet, a double or two-ply carpet. --
• BRAIN
  The whitish mass of soft matter (the center of the nervous system, and the seat of consciousness and volition) which is inclosed in the cartilaginous or bony cranium of vertebrate animals. It is simply the anterior termination of the spinal cord,
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• SICK-BRAINED
  Disordered in the brain.
• WATER DRAIN
  A drain or channel for draining off water.
• SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED
  Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.
• UPTRAIN
  To train up; to educate. "Daughters which were well uptrained." Spenser.
• CORRIDOR TRAIN
  A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.