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  • English Word Bated Definition of Bate
  • English Word Bated Definition Reduced; lowered; restrained; as, to speak with bated breath.
  • English Word Bateful Definition Exciting contention; contentious.
  • English Word Bateless Definition Not to be abated.
  • English Word Batement Definition Abatement; diminution.
  • English Word Batfish Definition A name given to several species of fishes: (a) The Malthe vespertilio of the Atlantic coast. (b) The flying gurnard of the Atlantic (Cephalacanthus spinarella). (c) The California batfish or sting ray (Myliobatis Californicus.)
  • English Word Batfowler Definition One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.
  • English Word Batfowling Definition A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.
  • English Word Batful Definition Rich; fertile.
  • English Word Bath Definition 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.
  • English Word Bath Definition Water or other liquid for bathing.
  • English Word Bath Definition A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.
  • English Word Bath Definition A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
  • English Word Bath Definition A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
  • English Word Bath Definition A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
  • English Word Bath Definition 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.
  • English Word Bath Definition A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.
  • English Word Bathe Definition To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.
  • English Word Bathe Definition To lave; to wet.
  • English Word Bathe Definition To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
  • English Word Bathe Definition 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.
  • English Word Bathe Definition To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.
  • English Word Bathe Definition To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.
  • English Word Bathe Definition To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.
  • English Word Bathe Definition To bask in the sun.
  • English Word Bathe Definition The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe.
  • English Word Bathed Definition of Bathe
  • English Word Bather Definition One who bathes.
  • English Word Bathetic Definition Having the character of bathos.
  • English Word Bathing Definition of Bathe