bath

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of soaking or cleansing the body, as in water or steam.
• noun The water used for cleansing the body.
• noun A bathtub.
• noun A bathroom.
• noun A building equipped for bathing.
• noun A resort providing therapeutic baths; a spa.
• noun A liquid in which something is dipped or soaked for processing.
• noun A container holding such a liquid.
• noun A medium, such as oil or sand, that controls the temperature of objects placed in it.
• noun A container holding such a medium.
• noun An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid measure, equal to about 38 liters (10 US gallons).

from The Century Dictionary.

• To put into a bath; wash in a bath.
• noun A Hebrew liquid measure = 72 logs = 6 hins = cor, and corresponding to the dry measure the ephah = 72 logs = 18 cabs = 3 saths = cor.
• noun A washing of the body in, or an exposure of it to the action of, water or other fluid agent, for cleansing, refreshment, medical treatment, etc.: as, to take a bath; to administer a bath to a patient.
• noun A provision or arrangement for bathing: as, to prepare a bath; a hot or cold bath; a vapor-bath; an electric bath.
• noun A vessel for holding water in which to plunge, wash, or bathe the body.
• noun More generally, an apartment or apparatus by means of which the body, or a part of it, may be bathed in any medium differing in nature or temperature from its natural medium.
• noun An edifice containing apartments fitted up for bathing; a bath-house; particularly, in the plural, one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients, as the Baths of Caracalla at Rome. See thermœ.
• noun In science and the arts, any vessel containing a liquid for treating any object by immersion.
• noun An arrangement or preparation for immersing anything, as the silver-bath in photography.
• noun In chem., an apparatus for modifying and regulating the heat in various chemical processes, by interposing a quantity of sand, water, or other substance between the fire and the vessel intended to be heated.
• noun In electricity, the solution in which electrochemical action takes place, as in electroplating, electrotyping, electrometallurgy, etc.
• noun Same as bath-flower.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.
• noun a preparation of calcareous earth, in the form of a brick, used for cleaning knives, polished metal, etc.
• noun a kind of chair on wheels, as used by invalids at Bath.
• noun an alloy consisting of four and a half ounces of zinc and one pound of copper.
• noun a folded writing paper, 8 1/2 by 14 inches.
• noun a species of limestone (oölite) found near Bath, used for building.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun Water or other liquid for bathing.
• noun A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.
• noun A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
• noun (Chem.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
• noun (Photog.) A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
• noun See Douche.
• noun 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.
• noun 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.
• noun a kind of bath in which a profuse perspiration is produced by hot air, after which the body is washed and shampooed.
• noun a house used for the purpose of bathing; -- also a small house, near a bathing place, where a bather undresses and dresses.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun biblical An ancient Hebrew unit of liquid volume measure, equal to an ephah and to one-tenth of a homer, and approximately equal to 22 litres.
• noun A tub or pool which is used for bathing: bathtub.
• noun A room or area where bathing occurs: bathroom.
• noun The act of bathing.
• noun A substance or preparation into which something is immersed.