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liness, 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.

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

One who bathes.

Having the character of bathos. [R.]

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.

See Vital force.

An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.

A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.

A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.

A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.

Descriptive of the ocean depth; as, a bathygraphic chart.

Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.

The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.

To bathe; to imbathe.

A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.

To bathe. [Obs.]

To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.

A line connecting the points on the surface of the earth where a certain temperature is found at the same depth.

Of or pertaining to an isobathytherm; possessing or indicating the same temperature at the same depth.

A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean.