[f. prec. vb.] An act of bathing (in the intr. sense of bathe).
Of modern origin, and used instead of BATH sb.1, sense 1, to exclude the suggestion of other senses.
1831. Southey, Lett. (1856), IV. 230. A two hours’ walk, and a bathe in the Greta.
1861. Sat. Rev., 30 Nov., 565. A mountain stream in which the happy party took every day their morning bathe.
