Index of English words, starting with "ba"

(1) - Batfowling (n.) A mode of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost. The birds, flying to the light, are caught with nets or otherwise.

(1) - Bath (n.) A city in the west of England, resorted to for its hot springs, which has given its name to various objects.
(2) - Bath (n.) A Hebrew measure containing the tenth of a homer, or five gallons and three pints, as a measure for liquids; and two pecks and five quarts, as a dry measure.
(3) - Bath (n.) A solution in which plates or prints are immersed; also, the receptacle holding the solution.
(4) - Bath (n.) A medium, as heated sand, ashes, steam, hot air, through which heat is applied to a body.
(5) - Bath (n.) A building containing an apartment or a series of apartments arranged for bathing.
(6) - Bath (n.) A receptacle or place where persons may immerse or wash their bodies in water.
(7) - Bath (n.) Water or other liquid for bathing.
(8) - Bath (n.) 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; as, a cold or a hot bath; a medicated bath; a steam bath; a hip bath.

(1) - Bathe (n.) The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual bathe.
(2) - Bathe (v. i.) To bask in the sun.
(3) - Bathe (v. i.) To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath.
(4) - Bathe (v. i.) To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths.
(5) - Bathe (v. t.) To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person immersed.
(6) - Bathe (v. t.) To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.
(7) - Bathe (v. t.) To moisten or suffuse with a liquid.
(8) - Bathe (v. t.) To lave; to wet.
(9) - Bathe (v. t.) To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath.