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What's The Definition Of Bathe?

\Bathe\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bathed} (?); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bathing}.] [OE. ba?ien, AS. ba?ian, fr. b[ae]? 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. ``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.
\Bathe\, v. i. 1. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. ``They bathe in summer.'' --Waller. 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.
\Bathe\, n. The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe. --Edin. Rev.