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See 2d Bath.

A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load. Macaulay.

Same as Bathorse.

To bathe. [Obs.] Spenser.

To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. [Obs.] Spenser.

that the qualities or effects of an action or state are beneficial: as, to believe in sea bathing, or in abstinence from alcoholic beverages. -- To believe on, to accept implicitly as an object of religious trust or obedience; to have faith in.

A kind of bath tub for sitting baths; a sitz bath.

rve duly; to keep; as, to celebrate a birthday. Fron even unto shall ye celebrate your Sabbath. Lev. xxiii. 32.

That part of the baths and gymnasia in which bathers and wrestlers anointed themselves.

saving stations along the seacoast. [U. S.] -- Coast rat (Zoöl.), a South African mammal (Bathyergus suillus), about the size of a rabbit, remarkable for its extensive burrows; -- called also sand mole. -- Coast waiter, a customhouse officer who superintends the landing or shipping of goods for the coast trade. [Eng.]…

A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath.

To satisfy the expectations of; to pay; to requite. Come the next Sabbath, and I will content you. Shak.

banns of, as for marriage. I should not be surprised if they were cried in church next Sabbath. Judd. To cry aim. See under Aim. -- To cry down, to decry; to depreciate; to dispraise; to condemn. Men of dissolute lives cry down religion, because they would not be under the restraints of it. Tillotson. -- To cry out, t…

to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns. In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. Matt. xxviii. 1.

gns or characters combined to express a single articulated sound; as ea in head, or th in bath.

of water or vapor directed upon some part of the body to benefit it medicinally; a douche bath.

nia. [Written also dillisk.] The crimson leaf of the dulse is seen To blush like a banner bathed in slaughter. Percival.

To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung; -- done to remove the superfluous mordant.

nomy . . . of poems better observed than in Terence. B. Jonson. The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep. Paley.

To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing. [Obs.] Spenser.