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   Bathe (bāth), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bathed (bāthd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bathing.] [OE. baðien, AS. baðian, fr. bæð bath. See 1st Bath, and cf. Bay to bathe.]
   1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
   
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   Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South.
   
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   2. To lave; to wet. “The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain.”  T. Arnold.
   
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   3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
   
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   And let us bathe our hands in Cæsar's blood. Shak.
   
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   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”.
   
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   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.
   
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   Bathe (), v. i.
   1. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. “They bathe in summer.”  Waller.
   
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   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.
   
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   3. To bask in the sun. [Obs.]  Chaucer.
   
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   Bathe, n. The immersion of the body in water; as, “to take one's usual bathe”.  Edin. Rev.
   
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