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Bathing   /bˈeɪðɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Bathe  v. t.  (past & past part. bathed; pres. part. bathing)  
1.
To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. "Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus."
2.
To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain."
3.
To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. "And let us bathe our hands in Caesar's blood."
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. " "The bright sunshine bathing all the world."



Bathe  v. i.  
1.
To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. "They bathe in summer."
2.
To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. "To bathe in fiery floods." "Bathe in the dimples of her cheek."
3.
To bask in the sun. (Obs.)



noun
Bathing  n.  Act of taking a bath or baths.
Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.






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"Bathing" Quotes from Famous Books



... to give up that bathing in the Serpentine. At his age it's monstrous. And surely any other girl will ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... that was thy wiliest web. What! no poor, all nobles, all fat, all glittering in court raiment, all surfeited with sweets, all bathing in Johannisberg and champagne, all tended by houries, all pillowed on orange-scented beds, and covered with gauze or eider down, according to the season? Charming Satan! Selfishness made universal will be selfishness no more. Thou art an angel ...
— Brook Farm • John Thomas Codman

... One bathing-suit without skirt, made in one-piece, loose, belted waist with bloomers; suit opened on shoulders with strong ...
— On the Trail - An Outdoor Book for Girls • Lina Beard and Adelia Belle Beard

... Ararat there grew a vine, When Asia from her bathing rose; Our first sailor made a twine Thereof for his prefiguring brows. Canst divine Where, upon our dusty earth, of that vine ...
— New Poems • Francis Thompson

... quantity of huckleberries. Some interesting Jacksonian discussion introduced by one of the gentlemen to the News Room. Took a pleasant walk, much cooler; generally admitted to have been the hottest day they have had; walked along the river, a great number of boys bathing, jumping head foremost from a raft covered with shingles. Found a steamboat leaves every morning for Newport, swallowed another glass of milk and went to bed at nine. The cars eight ...
— A Journey to America in 1834 • Robert Heywood


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