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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



... she could she stopped the bleeding and tried to revive Hiram. Into cold rain water, collected in a hollow of the ground, she plunged her handkerchief again and again, bathing the man's temples and chafing ...
— The She Boss - A Western Story • Arthur Preston Hankins
... acquainted with grief, at whose feet she knelt—ay, even while seven foul fiends were struggling in her heart, I longed to kneel before Him too in deep prostration of spirit, and lay all my sorrows, all my sins, all my difficulties, at His sacred feet, bathing them as she did with tears, and wiping them with the hairs of her head. Oh! if in that moment of emotion, in that hour of penitence, I could have gone to one of those, who, ministering at God's altar, and endowed with His commission, ...
— Ellen Middleton--A Tale • Georgiana Fullerton
... toil for Him is apt to entice our thoughts from out of the secret place of the most High into the busy arena of our strife. Therefore we have ever need to refresh the drooping flowers of the chaplet by bathing them in the Fountain of Life, to rise above all the fevered toil of earth to the calm heights where God dwells, and in still communion with Him to replenish our emptied vessels and fill our dimly burning lamps with His golden oil. ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII • Alexander Maclaren
... the service (there was but one each day) at the lowest price of the clerical market. Occasionally it was announced, in the vernacular of the district, that there would be no church, "because the priest had gone for the sea-bathing," or because the waters were out, and the priest could ...
— The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green • Cuthbert Bede
... leave of this flourishing colony, and walking up the rising ground to the tents, found Delorier's fire still glowing brightly. We sat down around it, and Shaw began to expatiate on the admirable facilities for bathing that we had discovered, and recommended the captain by all means to go down there before breakfast in the morning. The captain was in the act of remarking that he couldn't have believed it possible, when he suddenly interrupted himself, ...
— The Oregon Trail • Francis Parkman, Jr.


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