n.; pl. Baths [ AS. bæð; akin to OS. & Icel. bað, Sw., Dan., D., & G. bad, and perh. to G. bähen to foment. ] 1. The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Water or other liquid for bathing. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Chem.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Photog.) A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Bath is used adjectively or in combination, in an obvious sense of or for baths or bathing; as, bathroom, bath tub, bath keeper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Douche bath. See Douche. --
Order of the Bath, a high order of British knighthood, composed of three classes, viz., knights grand cross, knights commanders, and knights companions, abbreviated thus: G. C. B., K. C. B., K. B. --
Russian bath, a kind of vapor bath which consists in a prolonged exposure of the body to the influence of the steam of water, followed by washings and shampooings. --
Turkish bath, a kind of bath in which a profuse perspiration is produced by hot air, after which the body is washed and shampooed. --
Bath house, a house used for the purpose of bathing; -- also a small house, near a bathing place, where a bather undresses and dresses. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Heb. ] A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bath brick, a preparation of calcareous earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc. --
Bath chair, a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath. “People walked out, or drove out, or were pushed out in their Bath chairs.” Dickens. --
Bath metal, an alloy consisting of four and a half ounces of zinc and one pound of copper. --
Bath note, a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches. --
Bath stone, a species of limestone (oölite) found near Bath, used for building. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bathed p. pr. & vb. n. Bathing. ] [ OE. baðien, AS. baðian, fr. bæð bath. See 1st Bath, and cf. Bay to bathe. ] 1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. [ 1913 Webster ]

Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lave; to wet. “The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain.” T. Arnold. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. [ 1913 Webster ]

And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. “They bathe in summer.” Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To bask in the sun. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The immersion of the body in water; as, to take one's usual bathe. Edin. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who bathes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the character of bathos. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a building containing dressing rooms for bathers.
Syn. -- bathing machine. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a building containing public baths.
Syn. -- bagnio. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. Act of taking a bath or baths. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Vital force. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth.
Syn. -- batholith, pluton, plutonic rock. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. baqo`s depth + -lith. ] A large mass of intrusive igneous rock believed to have solidified deep within the earth.
Syn. -- batholite, pluton, plutonic rock. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Of or pertaining to a batholith. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. baqo`s depth + -meter. ] An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bât packsaddle (cheval de bât packhorse) + E. horse. See Bastard. ] A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ba`qos depth, fr. baqy`s deep. ] (Rhet.) A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a large towel used to dry oneself after a bath. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A relatively large tub used to take a bath, usually a permanent fixture in a bathroom; it is an open container that is filled with water, in which a person immerses himself for the purpose of washing the body.
Syn. -- bath, tub. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. of or pertaining to bathymetry. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. Gr. baqy`s deep + bi`os life ] (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a natural family inclusing the mole rats and sand rats.
Syn. -- family Bathyergidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a genus consisting of the mole rats.
Syn. -- genus Bathyergus. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. baqy`s deep + graphic. ] Descriptive of the ocean depth; as, a bathygraphic chart. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } a. Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea. -- Bath`y*met"ric*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ Gr. ba`qos depth + -metry. ] The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. navigable deep diving vessel for underwater exploration.
Syn. -- bathyscape. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a spherical deep diving apparatus (lowered by a cable) for underwater exploration; it is constructed with a strong steel shell to withstand high pressures at the ocean bottom. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. an ornamental basin (usually in a garden) for birds to bathe in. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. Indiscriminate slaughter; the killing of multiple persons.
Syn. -- bloodletting, bloodshed, battue. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. [ fig. ] Substantial losses by many people, as in a mass termination of employment or widespread financial loss; as, the sudden market drop created a bloodbath among overoptimistic investors. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ Pref. em- + bathe. Cf. Imbathe. ] To bathe; to imbathe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To bathe. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. im- in + bathe. Cf. Embathe. ] To bathe; to wash freely; to immerse. [ 1913 Webster ]

And gave her to his daughters to imbathe
In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Iso- + Gr. &unr_; deep + &unr_; heat. ] (Phys. Geog.) A line connecting the points on the surface of the earth where a certain temperature is found at the same depth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an isobathytherm; possessing or indicating the same temperature at the same depth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Iso- + Gr. &unr_; hot + &unr_; depth. ] (Phys. Geog) A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Med.) Orig., a method of therapeutic treatment administered, esp. for chronic diseases of the curculatory system, at Bad Nauheim, Germany, by G. Schott, consisting in baths in the natural mineral waters of that place, which are charged with carbonic acid, and the use of a graduated course of rest, physical exercises, massage, etc.; hence, any similar treatment using waters artificially charged with the essential ingredients of the natural mineral waters of Bad Nauheim. Hence, etc. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. sabat, sabbat, F. sabbat, L. sabbatum, Gr. sa`bbaton, fr. Heb. shabbāth, fr. shābath to rest from labor. Cf. Sabbat. ] 1. A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last to the first day of the week, which is called also Lord's Day. [ 1913 Webster ]

Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Ex. xx. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The seventh year, observed among the Israelites as one of rest and festival. Lev. xxv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: A time of rest or repose; intermission of pain, effort, sorrow, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Peaceful sleep out the sabbath of the tomb. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sabbath breaker, one who violates the law of the Sabbath. --
Sabbath breaking, the violation of the law of the Sabbath. --
Sabbath-day's journey, a distance of about a mile, which, under Rabbinical law, the Jews were allowed to travel on the Sabbath. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sabbath, Sunday. Sabbath is not strictly synonymous with Sunday. Sabbath denotes the institution; Sunday is the name of the first day of the week. The Sabbath of the Jews is on Saturday, and the Sabbath of most Christians on Sunday. In New England, the first day of the week has been called “the Sabbath, ” to mark it as holy time; Sunday is the word more commonly used, at present, in all parts of the United States, as it is in England. “So if we will be the children of our heavenly Father, we must be careful to keep the Christian Sabbath day, which is the Sunday.” Homilies. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ G. sitzbad. ] A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath. [ 1913 Webster ]

A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose. [ 1913 Webster ]