bathe : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bathe	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for bathe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
bathe n the act of swimming; "the Englishman said he had a good bathe" v cleanse the entire body; "bathe daily" suffuse with or as if with light; "The room was bathed in sunlight" clean one's body by immersion into water; "The child should bathe every day" Synonym(s): bathe, bath
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bathe \Bathe\, v. i. 1. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. [bd]They bathe in summer.[b8] --Waller. 2. To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. [bd]To bathe in fiery floods.[b8] --Shak. [bd]Bathe in the dimples of her cheek.[b8] --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[91][?] 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. [bd]The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain.[b8] --T. Arnold. 3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. And let us bathe our hands in C[91]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. [bd]The rosy shadows bathe me. [b8] --Tennyson. [bd]The bright sunshine bathing all the world.[b8] --Longfellow.