Word Meanings - BEATH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood. Spenser.

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
BATHER
One who bathes.
UNSEASON
1. To make unseasoned; to deprive of seasoning. 2. To strike unseasonably; to affect disagreeably or unfavorably. Why do I send this rustic madrigal, That may thy tuneful ear unseason quite Spenser.
UNSEASONED
1. Not seasoned. 2. Untimely; ill-timed. Shak.
UNSEASONABLE
Not seasonable; being, done, or occurring out of the proper season; ill-timed; untimely; too early or too late; as, he called at an unseasonable hour; unseasonable advice; unseasonable frosts; unseasonable food. -- Un*sea"son*a*ble*ness,
SPENSERIAN
Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
BATHETIC
Having the character of bathos.
DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
IMBATHE
To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.
FORBATHE
To bathe.
EMBATHE
To bathe; to imbathe.