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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bathe \Bathe\ (b[=a][th]), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bathed} (b[=a][th]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Bathing}.] [OE. ba[eth]ien, AS. ba[eth]ian, fr. b[ae][eth] 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bathing \Bath"ing\, noun 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bathing
noun
1: immersing the body in water or sunshine
2: the act of washing yourself (or another person) [syn: {washup}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
69 Moby Thesaurus words for "bathing": Australian crawl, Rugby, acrobatics, affusion, agonistics, aquaplaning, aquatics, aspergation, aspersion, association football, athletics, backstroke, balneation, baptism, bath, bathe, bedewing, breaststroke, butterfly, crawl, dampening, damping, deluge, dewing, diving, dog paddle, drowning, fin, fishtail, flapper, flipper, floating, flooding, gymnastics, hosing, hosing down, humidification, immersion, inundation, irrigation, laving, moistening, natation, palaestra, rinsing, rugger, sidestroke, soccer, sparging, spattering, splashing, splattering, sports, spraying, sprinkling, submersion, surfboarding, surfing, swashing, swim, swimming, track, track and field, treading water, tumbling, wading, watering, waterskiing, wetting
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