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Bath
CIDE DICTIONARY
Bath, n. [AS. bæ; akin to OS. & Icel. ba, Sw., Dan., D., & G. bad, and perh. to G. bähen to foment.].
- The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath. [1913 Webster]
- Water or other liquid for bathing. [1913 Webster]
- A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water. [1913 Webster]
- A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing. [1913 Webster]"Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence." [1913 Webster]
- A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body. [1913 Webster]
- A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution. [1913 Webster]" Bath is used adjectively or in combination, in an obvious sense of or for baths or bathing; as, bathroom, bath tub, bath keeper." [1913 Webster]
Bath, n. [Heb.].
A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure. [1913 Webster]
Bath, n.
A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Bath, n. & v.
--n. (pl. baths)
1 a (in full bath-tub) a container for liquid, usu. water, used for immersing and washing the body. b this with its contents (your bath is ready).
2 the act or process of immersing the body for washing or therapy (have a bath; take a bath).
3 a a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed, e.g. a film for developing, for controlling temperature, etc. b this with its contents.
4 (usu. in pl.) a building with baths or a swimming pool, usu. open to the public.
--v. Brit.
1 tr. wash (esp. a person) in a bath.
2 intr. take a bath.
--n. (pl. baths)
1 a (in full bath-tub) a container for liquid, usu. water, used for immersing and washing the body. b this with its contents (your bath is ready).
2 the act or process of immersing the body for washing or therapy (have a bath; take a bath).
3 a a vessel containing liquid in which something is immersed, e.g. a film for developing, for controlling temperature, etc. b this with its contents.
4 (usu. in pl.) a building with baths or a swimming pool, usu. open to the public.
--v. Brit.
1 tr. wash (esp. a person) in a bath.
2 intr. take a bath.
Idiom
bath cube a cube of compacted bath salts. bath salts soluble salts used for softening or scenting bath-water.
Etymology
OE b{aelig}th f. Gmc
DEVIL DICTIONARY
Bath
n. A kind of mystic ceremony substituted for religious worship, with what spiritual efficacy has not been determined.
The man who taketh a steam bath
He loseth all the skin he hath,
And, for he's boiled a brilliant red,
Thinketh to cleanliness he's wed,
Forgetting that his lungs he's soiling
With dirty vapors of the boiling.
Richard Gwow
THESAURUS
Bath
Finnish bath, Japanese bath, Russian bath, Swedish bath, Turkish bath, acid bath, affusion, aquamanile, aspergation, aspersion, automatic dishwasher, bagnio, balneae, balneum, baptism, basin, bathe, bathhouse, bathing, bathroom, baths, bathtub, bedewing, bidet, caldarium, cold shower, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, dip, dishpan, dishwasher, douche, drowning, ewer, finger bowl, fixing bath, flooding, hip bath, hosing, hosing down, humidification, hummum, immersion, inundation, irrigation, kitchen sink, lavabo, lavatory, laving, mercury bath, mikvah, moistening, needle bath, piscina, plunge bath, public baths, rest room, rinsing, sauna, sauna bath, sheep dip, shower, shower bath, shower curtain, shower head, shower room, shower stall, showers, sink, sitz bath, spa, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, sponge, sponge bath, spraying, sprinkling, steam room, submersion, sudarium, sudatorium, swashing, sweat bath, sweat room, tepidarium, thermae, tub, wash, wash barrel, wash boiler, washbasin, washbowl, washdish, washer, washing machine, washing pot, washpot, washroom, washstand, washtub, watering, watering place, wetting, whirlpool bathROGET THESAURUS
Bath
Insertion
N insertion, implantation, introduction, insinuation, planting injection, inoculation, importation, infusion, forcible ingress, immersion, submersion, submergence, dip, plunge, bath, interment, clyster, enema, glyster, lavage, lavement, inserted.Water
N water, serum, serosity, lymph, rheum, diluent, agua, aqua, pani, dilution, maceration, lotion, washing, immersion, humectation, infiltration, spargefaction, affusion, irrigation, douche, balneation, bath, deluge, high water, flood tide, watery, aqueous, aquatic, hydrous, lymphatic, balneal, diluent, drenching, diluted, weak, wet, the waters are out.Also see definition of "Bath" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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