1879, Th Du Moncel,The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page166:
He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in abath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
1990, Mukti Jain Campion,The Baby Challenge: A handbook on pregnancy for women with a physical disability.[1],→ISBN, page41:
Somewhere tobath the baby: don't invest in a plastic baby bath. The bathroom handbasin is usually a much more convenient place tobath the baby. If your partner is more able, this could be a task he might take on as his,bathing the baby in a basin or plastic bown on the floor.
2006, Sue Dallas, Diana North, Joanne Angus,Grooming Manual for the Dog and Cat[2],→ISBN, page91:
For grooming at home, obviously the choice is yours whether you wish tobath the dog in your own bath or sink, or if you want to buy one specifically for the purpose.
“Oh, dear no, notme; I neverbath, ’tis the cat has beenbathing,in a warm sea bath; I’ll tell you how I manage: I bought a large pickle-jar, and so I have it filled every morning with hot sea water, proportionate to thethermometerical heat my finger can bear, and that I stile Tink-a-tink’s bath; in which I immerge him all but his head, for a quarter of an hour; and he looks so pretty, and receives so much benefit, you would be surprised.”
1912, James Ward, quotee, “Report on the Royal Commission on Mines”, inAppendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives of New Zealand[5], Wellington, page141:
A man's home may be handy to the mine, in which case he would not need to lose the bath, but if he lived any distance away he wouldbath at the mine.
2007, “Doctors, Regeneration, and the Revolutionary Crucible, 1789-1804”, in Sean M. Quinlan,The Great Nation in Decline (The History of Medicine in Context)[6], Aldershot: Ashgate,→ISBN, page140:
In a flight of fancy, Millot even wanted to create public bath houses alongside the Seine, so young children couldbath in the river’s healthful waters.
2017 February 9, “Very Early Spring”, in Jean A. Stockdale,My Spring: Royal Times and Ordinary Lives[7], Troubador Publishing,→ISBN, page17:
Parents wouldbath after all the children had gone to bed or older children sent into the front room.
Ye shall have just balances, and a justephah, and a justbath. Theephah and thebath shall be of one measure, that thebath may contain the tenth part of anhomer, and theephah the tenth part of anhomer: the measure thereof shall be after thehomer.
Probably fromProto-Celtic*batto-; according to the GPC, possibly related toLatinbattuo(“I fight, pound, beat (up)”), though the semantics are far from certain.[1]
^R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bath”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “bath”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page25
