n. A washing of the body in, or an exposure of it to the action of, water or other fluid agent, for cleansing, refreshment, medical treatment, etc.: as, to take a bath; to administer a bath to a patient.n. A provision or arrangement for bathing: as, to prepare a bath; a hot or cold bath; a vapor-bath; an electric bath.n. A vessel for holding water in which to plunge, wash, or bathe the body.n. More generally, an apartment or apparatus by means of which the body, or a part of it, may be bathed in any medium differing in nature or temperature from its natural medium.n. An edifice containing apartments fitted up for bathing; a bath-house; particularly, in the plural, one of the elaborate bathing establishments of the ancients, as the Baths of Caracalla at Rome. See thermœ.n. In science and the arts, any vessel containing a liquid for treating any object by immersion.n. An arrangement or preparation for immersing anything, as the silver-bath in photography.n. In chem., an apparatus for modifying and regulating the heat in various chemical processes, by interposing a quantity of sand, water, or other substance between the fire and the vessel intended to be heated.To put into a bath; wash in a bath.n. A Hebrew liquid measure = 72 logs = 6 hins = cor, and corresponding to the dry measure the ephah = 72 logs = 18 cabs = 3 saths = cor.n. In electricity, the solution in which electrochemical action takes place, as in electroplating, electrotyping, electrometallurgy, etc.n. Same as bath-flower.