Bathing \Bath"ing\, n. Act of taking a bath or baths.

Bathing machine, a small room on wheels, to be driven into the water, for the convenience of bathers, who undress and dress therein.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)