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To apply a warm lotion to; to bathe with a cloth or sponge wet with warm water or medicated liquid.

A fountain; a spring; a source. Bathing forever in the font of bliss. Young.

r destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.

The cooling room of the Roman thermæ, furnished with a cold bath.

ted by it, as, to be full of some project. Every one is full of the miracles done by cold baths on decayed and weak constitutions. Locke.

ink by electrical deposition; now more commonly, iron coated with zink by plunging into a bath of melted zink, after its surface has been cleaned by friction with the aid of dilute acid.

hout the country. -- Grand cross. (a) The highest rank of knighthood in the Order of the Bath. (b) A knight grand cross. -- Grand cordon, the cordon or broad ribbon, identified with the highest grade in certain honorary orders; hence, a person who holds that grade. -- Grand days (Eng. Law), certain days in the terms…

treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed fire. Milton. In a larger sense . . . we can not hallow this ground [Gettysburg]. A. Lincoln.

One of the lessons from the Nebiim (or Prophets) read in the Jewish synagogue on Sabbaths, feast days, fasts, and the ninth of Ab, at the end of the service, after the parashoth, or lessons from the Law. Such a practice is evidenced in Luke iv.17 and Acts xiii.15.

A fall or plunge headforemost, as while riding a bicycle, or in bathing; as, to take a header. [Colloq.]

A Hebrew measure containing, as a liquid measure, ten baths, equivalent to fifty-five gallons, two quarts, one pint; and, as a dry measure, ten ephahs, equivalent to six bushels, two pecks, four quarts. [Written also chomer, gomer.]

A bagnio, or bathing house. [Obs.] Shak.

A sweating bath or place for sweating. Sir T. Herbert.

A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.

Sodium hyposulphite, or thiosulphate, a solution of which is used as a bath to wash out the unchanged silver salts in a picture. [Colloq.]

which the heat of a fire was distributed to rooms above. This contrivance, first used in bath, was afterwards adopted in private houses.

n of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.

The act of sitting, as in a tub or bath. "Used by way of fomentation, insession, or bath." [R.] Holland.

Exposure of a patient to the sun's rays; a sun bath.

ishna and to possess a soul. The principal festivals are the Snanayatra, when the idol is bathed, and the Rathayatra, when the image is drawn upon a car adorned with obscene paintings. Formerly it was erroneously supposed that devotees allowed themselves to be crushed beneath the wheels of this car. It is now known tha…