Defn: Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; — the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in the sanctuary. They were made of fine flour unleavened, and were changed every Sabbath. The loaves, twelve in number, represented the twelve tribes of Israel. They were to be eaten by the priests only, and in the Holy Place. [Written also shewbread.] Mark ii. 26.
SHOWER
Show"er, n.
1. One who shows or exhibits.
2. That which shows; a mirror. [Obs.] Wyclif.
SHOWER Show"er, n. Etym: [OE. shour, schour, AS. se; akin to D. schoer, G. schauer, OHG. sc, Icel. sk, Sw. skur, Goth. sk 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.
In drought or else showers. Chaucer.
Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers. Milton.
2. That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly. With showers of stones he drives them far away. Pope.
3. A copious supply bestowed. [R.] He and myself Have travail'd in the great shower of your gifts. Shak. Shower bath, a bath in which water is showered from above, and sometimes from the sides also.
SHOWER
Show"er, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Showered; p. pr. & vb. n. Showering.]
1. To water with a shower; to Lest it again dissolve and shower the earth. Milton.