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.