Word Meanings - ABSTERGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. Quincy.

ABSTERGENT
Serving to cleanse, detergent.
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
RINSER
One who, or that which, rinses.
CLEANSE
To render clean; to free from fith, pollution, infection, guilt, etc.; to clean. If we walk in the light . . . the blood of Jesus Christ his son cleanseth us from all sin. 1 John i. 7. Can'st thou not minister to a mind diseased, And with some sweet
BATHER
One who bathes.
RINSE
1. To wash lightly; to cleanse with a second or repeated application of water after washing. 2. To cleancse by the introduction of water; -- applied especially to hollow vessels; as, to rinse a bottle. "Like a glass did break i' the rinsing." Shak.
CLEANSER
One who, or that which, cleanses; a detergent. Arbuthnot.
ABSTERGE
To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge. Quincy.
BATHETIC
Having the character of bathos.
IMBATHE
To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.
FORINSECAL
Foreign; alien. Bp. Burnet.
FORBATHE
To bathe.
INTRINSE
Tightly drawn; or intricate. Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain, Which are too intrinse to unloose. Shak.
EMBATHE
To bathe; to imbathe.