English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Batful
(v. i.)
Rich; fertile.
Bath
(n.)
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.
Bath
(n.)
Water or other liquid for bathing.
Bath
(n.)
A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their
bodies in water.
Bath
(n.)
A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments
arranged for bathing.
Bath
(n.)
A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through
which heat is applied to a body.
Bath
(n.)
A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the
receptacle holding the solution.
Bath
(n.)
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.
Bath
(n.)
A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot
springs, which has given its name to various objects.
Bathe
(v. t.)
To lave; to wet.
Bathe
(n.)
The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual
bathe.
Bathe
(v. i.)
To bask in the sun.
Bathe
(v. i.)
To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.
Bathe
(v. i.)
To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.
Bathe
(v. t.)
To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person
immersed.
Bathe
(v. t.)
To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
Bathe
(v. t.)
To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
Bathe
(v. t.)
To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe
the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with
camphor.
Bathed
(imp. & p. p.)
of Bathe
Bather
(n.)
One who bathes.