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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.

A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [Obs.]

A bathing room. Sir T. Browne.

The act of bathing. [R.]

A treatise on baths; the science of bathing.

Water or other liquid for bathing.

surrounds a person immersed. "The rosy shadows bathe me. " Tennyson. "The bright sunshine bathing all the world." Longfellow.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

That in which one sits, as a bathing tub. [R.] Insessions be bathing tubs half full. Holland.

A washing or bathing; also, a clyster.

A liquid preparation for bathing the skin, or an injured or diseased part, either for a medicinal purpose, or for improving its appearance.

The bathing of the feet, a bath for the feet. [Obs.]

or steam power, for beating ores to powder; anything like a pestle, used for pounding or bathing.

To make use of a bathing tub; to lie or be in a bath; to bathe. [Colloq.] Don't we all tub in England London Spectator.

water, or a place by the sea, or by some large body of water, to which people resort for bathing, recreation, boating, etc. -- Watering pot. (a) A kind of bucket fitted with a rose, or perforated nozzle, -- used for watering flowers, paths, etc. (b) (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of marine bivalve shells of the g…