Bath \Bath\ (b[.a]th; 61), n.; pl. {Baths} (b[.a][th]z). [AS. b[ae][eth]; akin to OS. & Icel. ba[eth], Sw., Dan., D., & G. bad, and perh. to G. b["a]hen to foment.] 1. The act of exposing the body, or part of the body, for purposes of cleanliness, comfort, health, etc., to water, vapor, hot air, or the like; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.
2. Water or other liquid for bathing.
3. A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.
4. A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
Among the ancients, the public baths were of amazing extent and magnificence. --Gwilt.
5. (Chem.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
6. (Photog.) A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
Note: Bath is used adjectively or in combination, in an obvious sense of or for baths or bathing; as, bathroom, bath tub, bath keeper.
{Douche bath}. See {Douche}.
{Order of the Bath}, a high order of British knighthood, composed of three classes, viz., knights grand cross, knights commanders, and knights companions, abbreviated thus: G. C. B., K. C. B., K. B.
{Russian bath}, a kind of vapor bath which consists in a prolonged exposure of the body to the influence of the steam of water, followed by washings and shampooings.
{Turkish bath}, a kind of bath in which a profuse perspiration is produced by hot air, after which the body is washed and shampooed.
{Bath house}, a house used for the purpose of bathing; -- also a small house, near a bathing place, where a bather undresses and dresses.
Bath \Bath\, n. [Heb.] A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.
Bath \Bath\, n. A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.
{Bath brick}, a preparation of calcareous earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc.
{Bath chair}, a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath. ``People walked out, or drove out, or were pushed out in their Bath chairs.'' --Dickens.
{Bath metal}, an alloy consisting of four and a half ounces of zinc and one pound of copper.
{Bath note}, a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches.
{Bath stone}, a species of limestone (o["o]lite) found near Bath, used for building.
The en suite panelled bathroom had a free-standing bath and sociable chairs. This was our self-catering home for the weekend, the house once host to William III.
If Arena interprets its victory as a signal to crank up the grisly machinery, a blood bath could begin.
The gentlemen guests, he informed me, had already bathed, so I would be able to bath in privacy. In Japan it would be unthinkable to go on holiday for a few days without taking the waters.
A ban on garden hoses is in force in drought-hit Kent county and other parts of southern England, and Sastre says suspicious minds do not believe that he is simply using water recycled from his bath and kitchen.
It also supplies mail order bath oils (65ml for Pounds 19.95, plus Pounds 2 p&p).
Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to President Ford and a member of the Tower commission that investigated the Iran-Contra affair, testified that "the excessively restrictive language proposed seems a case of throwing out the baby with the bath.
With a battery of statistics proving that flying is safer than taking a bath, crashes are the only thing that make fear of flying seem rational.
"We would like to have (Stevens') bed and bath business, but we were the ones who proposed what we would divest early on, so it's no surprise, " said Pepperell Chairman Joseph L. Lanier.
"If you have to have someone who wants to overturn Roe vs. Wade, it's going to be a blood bath getting the nomination confirmed, and the same is true on the other side," predicted Senate Republican leader Bob Dole of Kansas.
The municipal note market "blood bath," as one trader termed it, began Friday when the July jobs report spurred a wave of dealer selling.
In New Delhi, the leader of the Tamils' semiautonomous government warned there will be a blood bath unless authorities in Colombo give his officials more power.
Even this would not be so bad were it not for the treatment of the holdout Grumpy, who is attacked by his fellows, now worshipful slaves to Snow White, for refusing to take a bath.
West Point-Pepperell Inc. said its fiscal first-quarter profit rose 83% on a 50% increase in sales, reflecting in part improved results from the apparel fabrics and bed and bath segments.
Now the bath tub is scratched, the carpet is wet and your right shoulder hurts.
Word also came from Santa Clara that a woman sustained no damage to her house, but her bird bath was tipped over.
First, when you catch a cricket, give him a bath," he says, moving his arms about as if scrubbing his back with a brush.
Some investors are like Zenzaburo Hara, the owner of a company that makes bath equipment.
Three D, an operator of specialty stores and leased departments, had operated bed and bath merchandise departments in 30 of K mart's Designer Depot stores under a license agreement.
So we should offer a No 2 route to the Umbrella, as in mountain climbing or skiing - to say 'You've done the blue route, now try the yellow route.' 'I still don't regard Merce Cunningham as a warm bath.
People buy tinfoil shampoo packets good for one bath and throw away the empty packets.
The owner wanted the maximum luxury and the best quality shower, bath and fittings.
But I am not sure Mackintosh would have approved of so much fitted carpeting or of five showers and only one bath. The leaded glass windows use Mackintosh designs, and the wing which he intended for servants will now take children or visitors.
A federal grand jury in Manhattan is weighing indictment of insurance executives whom the big financial services concern has blamed in civil court for causing some of the nearly half-billion-dollar bath it took in the reinsurance business.
The wallpaper is coming off the walls." Sewage from a backed-up manhole poured into Gary Peeler's back yard in North Little Rock, Ark. Water covered a 3-foot-high bird bath.
The FTC would permit Pepperell's previously announced plans to sell half of Stevens' bath lines and 20 percent of its sheet lines for about $170 million to NTC Group, parent of the textile manufacturer Bibb Co., Pepperell said.
Fit a hose connection to the bath drainage pipe before it joins the sewer.
Mr. Kgase identified pictures of Mrs. Mandela's house and said he was taken through a passage on its left side, to a veranda and then to a room with an empty whirlpool bath.
The consumer products giant said it has entered a joint venture with three China-based organizations to produce and sell products including dishwashing detergents, shampoo, bath foam and other personal-care goods.
They also can be cooked in a caustic bath such as lye.
"Our business was dead until they started coming." After a hard day of shopping, soaking in the China World hotel's black marble whirlpool bath is a welcome respite.