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Pronunciation : Bathe
Part of Speech : v.
Etymology : [OE. ba, AS. ba, fr. b? bath. See 1st Bath, and cf. Bay to bathe.]
Definition : 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?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.

t. [imp. & p. p. Bathed (p. pr. & vb. n. Bathing.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Bathe
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 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.

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Bathe
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : Defn: The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe. Edin. Rev.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913