Word Meanings - FOOTBATH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.

Related words: (words related to FOOTBATH)

• 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
• VESSELFUL
  As much as a vessel will hold; enough to fill a vessel.
• BATHOMETER
  An instrument for measuring depths, esp. one for taking soundings without a sounding line.
• BATHER
  One who bathes.
• BATH
  A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body. (more info) 1. 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;
• BATHING
  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.
• BATHMISM
  See FORCE
• BATHYBIUS
  A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is
• BATHOS
  A ludicrous descent from the elevated to the low, in writing or speech; anticlimax.
• BATHYMETRIC; BATHYMETRICAL
  Pertaining to bathymetry; relating to the measurement of depths, especially of depths in the sea.
• BATHYGRAPHIC
  Descriptive of the ocean depth; as, a bathygraphic chart.
• BATHETIC
  Having the character of bathos.
• VESSEL
  Any tube or canal in which the blood or other fluids are contained, secreted, or circulated, as the arteries, veins, lymphatics, etc. (more info) vascellum, dim. of vasculum, dim. of vas a vessel. Cf. Vascular, 1. A hollow or concave utensil for
• BATHYMETRY
  The art or science of sounding, or measuring depths in the sea.
• BATHORSE
  A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• ISOBATHYTHERM
  A line connecting the points on the surface of the earth where a certain temperature is found at the same depth.
• WATER BATH
  A device for regulating the temperature of anything subjected to heat, by surrounding the vessel containing it with another vessel containing water which can be kept at a desired temperature; also, a vessel designed for this purpose.
• AIR VESSEL
  A vessel, cell, duct, or tube containing or conducting air; as the air vessels of insects, birds, plants, etc.; the air vessel of a pump, engine, etc. For the latter, see Air chamber. The air vessels of insects are called tracheæ, of plants spiral
• FOOTBATH
  A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.
• SABBATH
  1. A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with a transference of the day observed from the last
• SABBATHLESS
  Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, without respite or rest. Bacon.
• ISOBATHYTHERMIC
  Of or pertaining to an isobathytherm; possessing or indicating the same temperature at the same depth.
• IMBATHE
  To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.
• DEWAR VESSEL
  A double-walled glass vessel for holding liquid air, etc., having the space between the walls exhausted so as to prevent conduction of heat, and sometimes having the glass silvered to prevent absorption of radiant heat; -- called also, according
• SITZ BATH
  A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture; also, a bath so taken; a hip bath.
• ISOTHERMOBATH
  A line drawn through points of equal temperature in a vertical section of the ocean.
• FORBATHE
  To bathe.