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verb

Bathe v. t. (past & past part. bathed; pres. part. bathing)

To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. "Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus."

To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain."

To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. "And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood."

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.

To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " "The bright sunshine bathing all the world."

Bathe v. i.

To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. "They bathe in summer."

To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. "To bathe in fiery floods." "Bathe in the dimples of her cheek."

To bask in the sun. (Obs.)

noun

Bathing n. Act of taking a bath or baths.

Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.

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Etymology of 'Bathing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bathing" Quotes from Famous Books

... said it was salt water he was thinking of, and asked, right on that, if I had got a bathing-dress? ...

— Phemie Frost's Experiences • Ann S. Stephens

... and she again returned to Ancona when the summer exodus from Rome set in. Once more she opened her palace as well as her villa, and passed most of her time in the latter residence in order to enjoy the sea-bathing. Though she was obliged to drive through the town to her house in the Corso, or to church, without exchanging greetings with a single human being, she persisted in taking this drive daily. When her daughter grew older, she allowed her to be present at the ...

— Captain Mansana and Mother's Hands • Bjoernstjerne Bjoernson

... again in their long white veils, they vanish flickering among the trees. But to the belated wanderer, if any such there be, who looks upon this scene, it is a vision of dread; for he is drawn by irresistible might to the lake wherein the white lady is bathing, to be swallowed up in its depths. And it is said that every year the lady must lure one unhappy mortal into the flood. So in the classic mythology, if Ovid report aright, Actaeon met the fearful fate of transformation into a stag by "gazing on divinity ...

— The Science of Fairy Tales - An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology • Edwin Sidney Hartland

... the position in which he had been placed on the camel, asked them by signs for permission to bathe in the lake. This was given principally apparently from curiosity, for but very few Arabs were able to swim; indeed, as a people they object so utterly to water that the idea of any one bathing for his amusement was to them ...

— The Boy Knight • G.A. Henty

... the factotum of this large community. He went and came when he pleased; all the country knew him; and he did the errands of all. The arrival of a carriage in Guerande, that of a lady or some invalid going to Croisic for sea-bathing (thought to have greater virtue among those rocks than at Boulogne or Dieppe) is still an immense event. The peasants come in on horseback, most of them with commodities for barter in sacks. They are induced to do so (and so ...

— Beatrix • Honore de Balzac

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