Reverse Dictionary: BATHE

ADJECTIVES
1645 ► BALNEAL pert. to a (warm) bath, or to bathing 
1661 ► LAVANT that bathes; given to bathing → obs.
1731 ► BALNEATORY pert. to a bath → obs.
1883 ► BALNEARY pert. to the bath or bathing 

NOUNS
..864 ► BATH a spring of water (chiefly hot or impregnated with minerals) suitable for bathing → obs.
1375 ► LAVATORY a bath; a vessel for washing 
1471 ► BALNE a bath; a warm bath → obs.
1475 ► BAIN a quantity of water or other liquid placed in a suitable receptacle in which one may bathe; the vessel in which the water is held → obs.
1483 ► BAIN a bath; an act of bathing → obs.
1494 ► BAIN a public bath; a room or building fitted up for bathing, having hot baths, etc. → obs.
1528 ► BAINING bathing → obs.
1535 ► LAVATUR a bath; a vessel for washing → Sc. obs.
1615 ► BAGNIO a bath, a bathing-house, esp. one with hot baths, vapour-baths, and appliances for sweating, etc. → obs.
1646 ► BALNEARY a bath or bathing-place; a medicinal spring 
1646 ► BALNEATION bathing → obs.
1652 ► BALNEUM a bath; bathing 
1753 ► CALDARIUM a Roman hot bath or bath-room 
1882 ► BANIO a bath-house → Amer. dial.
1883 ► BALNEOLOGY the scientific study of bathing and medicinal springs 
1888 ► BALNEOGRAPHY a description of or a treatise upon baths (Bk.)
1888 ► BALNEOTHERAPY treatment of disease by baths or medicinal springs (Bk.)
1898 ► BADE a bath → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1940 ► ANNUAL a bath → Aust. sl.
1940 ► SPLASH a bath, a sea, a lake, a river, any form of water → African-American sl.
1941 ► BANYA a bath-house → Amer. dial.
1944 ► WHORE’S BATH a bath with water out of one’s helmet → US services’ sl.
1953 ► BIRD BATH a bath requiring a minimum of water → Amer. dial.
1953 ► BITCH BATH a so-called bath without water, using talcum powder, deodorant, and perfume → Amer. dial.
1953 ► WHORE BATH a so-called bath without water, using talcum powder, deodorant, and perfume → Amer. dial.
1960 ► BOGEY → BOGIE → BOGY a bath or swim in a creek, waterhole, dam, etc. → Aust. sl.
1991 ► BATHOPHOBIA an intense dislike of bathing (Bk.)
1995 ► WHORE BATH a bath taken at a washstand → Amer. dial.

NOUNS, PERSON
1569 ► BAIN KEEPER the attendant of a room or building fitted up for bathing, having hot baths, etc. 
1591 ► BATH KEEPER a keeper or attendant at a bath-house 
1636 ► BATHER a bath-keeper, or attendant at a bath → obs.
1717 ► BALNEATOR a bath-keeper → obs. (Bk.)
1898 ► BAIGNEUR a bath-keeper (French) → (Bk.)
1902 ► BALNEOLOGIST an expert in balneology (the study of therapeutic bathing and medicinal springs) 
1970 ► BATHSHEBA a person who frequents homosexual bath-houses → US homosexual sl.

VERBS
1000 ► LAVE to bathe, to wash → chiefly poetic usage
1393 ► BASK to bathe, esp. in warm water or liquid; hence, to be suffused with, or swim in, blood, etc. → obs.
1398 ► BAIN to bathe or wash; to drench → obs.
1594 ► TAINT to bathe, to dip → obs.
1607 ► LAVER to bathe → obs.
1898 ► BADE to bathe in the open air, in a pond, in a river, in the sea → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1898 ► BAFF to bathe an injured part to give it relief → Sc.
1905 ► WADE to bathe → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1908 ► BAD to bathe; to bathe oneself → Sc.
1960 ► BOGEY → BOGIE → BOGY to take a bath or swim in a ‘bogeyhole’ → Aust. sl.