Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bathe"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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)

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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) 1.7 (wn)

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