BATHE

v. n.

9 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

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

2.
v.

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

3.
v.

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

4.
v.

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.

5.
v.

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

6.
v.

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

7.
v.

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

8.
v.

To bask in the sun. [Obs.] Chaucer.

9.
n.

The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe. Edin. Rev.

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