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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.]

To bathe; to imbathe.

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.

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

To bathe. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise. His feet the foremost breakers lave. Byron.

Bather. [Obs.] Chaucer. For lever had I die than see his deadly face. Spenser.

nd his sparhawk mantling in her mew. Bp. Hall. My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease. Spenser.

To lave or bathe over.

peculation. [Cant] Plunge bath, an immersion by plunging; also, a large bath in which the bather can wholly immerse himself. -- Plunge, or plunging, battery (Elec.), a voltaic battery so arranged that the plates can be plunged into, or withdrawn from, the exciting liquid at pleasure.