Helen Fenton

Bath: Definition and part of speech

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Bath

  1. n. A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. Water or other liquid for bathing.
  4. n. A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.
  5. n. A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
  6. n. A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
  7. n. A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
  8. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bathe: Definition and part of speech

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Bathe

  1. n. The immersion of the body in water; as to take one’s usual bathe.
  2. v. t. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
  3. v. t. To lave; to wet.
  4. v. t. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
  5. v. t. 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.
  6. v. t. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.
  7. v. i. To bathe one’s self; to take a bath or baths.
  8. v. i. To immerse or cover one’s self, as in a bath.
  9. v. i. To bask in the sun.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bathometer: Definition and part of speech

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Bathometer

  1. n. An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.