bathen

• bathien, baðien, beaðien, baþie, bathe, baathe, baþen

From Old English baþian, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbaːðən/

bathen (third-person singular simple present batheth, present participle bathende, simple past and past participle bathed)

1. To put something or someone in water:
   1. To bathe or wash something or someone.
   2. To bathe or immerse for curative reasons; to wash a wound
   3. To dip or quickly immerse someone.
   4. To shower or drench something or someone (usually in a liquid).
      • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 2-4.

        And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

        Of which vertu engendred is the flour;

2. To bathe; to have a bath or immerse oneself in liquid.
3. To enjoy or relax in something; to benefit from something.
4. (rare) To immerse or absorb in something; to cause immersion or absorption of something.
5. (rare) To swim; to move in water.

• English: bathe
• Scots: bathe, baith, bauthe

• “bāthen (v.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-16.