Word Meanings - IMBATHE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.

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• ASPHODEL
  A general name for a plant of the genus Asphodelus. The asphodels are hardy perennial plants, several species of which are cultivated for the beauty of their flowers. Note: The name is also popularly given to species of other genera. The asphodel
• NECTARINE
  Nectareous. Milton.
• NECTARIZE
  To mingle or infuse with nectar; to sweeten. Cockeram.
• STREWN
  p. p. of Strew.
• BATHE
  1. To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. Chancing to bathe himself in the River Cydnus. South. 2. To lave; to wet. "The lake which bathed the foot of the Alban mountain." T. Arnold. 3. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. And
• NECTARIFEROUS
  Secreting nectar; -- said of blossoms or their parts.
• IMBATHE
  To bathe; to wash freely; to immerce. And gave her to his daughters to imbathe In nectared lavers strewed with asphodel. Milton.
• STREWING
  1. The act of scattering or spreading. 2. Anything that is, or may be, strewed; -- used chiefly in the plural. Shak.
• NECTAR
  The drink of the gods ; hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
• NECTARY
  That part of a blossom which secretes nectar, usually the base of the corolla or petals; also, the spur of such flowers as the larkspur and columbine, whether nectariferous or not. See the Illustration of Nasturtium.
• STREWMENT
  Anything scattered, as flowers for decoration. Shak.
• BATHER
  One who bathes.
• NECTARIED
  Having a nectary.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• NECTARIAL
  Of or pertaining to the nectary of a plant.
• NECTAREOUS
  Of, pertaining to, containing, or resembling nectar; delicious; nectarean. Pope. -- Nec*ta"re*ous*ly, adv. -- Nec*ta"re*ous*ness, n.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• NECTARED
  Imbued with nectar; mingled with nectar; abounding with nectar. Milton.
• NECTAREAN
  Resembling nectar; very sweet and pleasant. "nectarean juice." Talfourd.
• STREW
  to Ofries. strewa, OS. strewian, D. strooijen, G. streuen, OHG. strewen, Icel. stra, Sw. strö, Dan. ströe, Goth. straujan, L. 1. To scatter; to spread by scattering; to cast or to throw loosely apart; -- used of solids, separated or separable
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• BESTREW
  To strew or scatter over; to besprinkle. Milton.
• FORBATHE
  To bathe.