4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bathe \Bathe\, v. i.
1. To bathe one's self to take a bath or baths. ``They bathe
in summer.'' --Waller.
2. To immerse or cover one's self as in a bath. ``To bathe
in fiery floods.'' --Shak. ``Bathe in the dimples of her
cheek.'' --Lloyd.
3. To bask in the sun. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bathe \Bathe\, n.
The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual
bathe. --Edin. Rev.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bathe \Bathe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bathed} (?); p. pr & vb n.
{Bathing}.] [OE. ba?ien, AS ba?ian, fr b[ae]? bath. See 1st
{Bath}, and cf {Bay} to bathe.]
1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus
--South.
2. To lave; to wet. ``The lake which bathed the foot of the
Alban mountain.'' --T. Arnold.
3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
And let us bathe our hands in C[ae]sar's blood.
--Shak.
4. To apply water or some liquid medicament to as to bathe
the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's
forehead with camphor.
5. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person
immersed. ``The rosy shadows bathe me '' --Tennyson.
``The bright sunshine bathing all the world.''
--Longfellow.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bathe
n : the act of swimming; "the Englishman said he had a good
bathe"
v 1: cleanse the entire body; "bathe daily"
2: suffuse with or as if with light; "The room was bathed in
sunlight"
3: clean one's body by immersion into water; "The child should
take a bath every day" [syn: {bath}]
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