Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To bathe; foment.
- To heat (unseasoned wood) for the purpose of straightening (it).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To bathe; also, to dry or heat, as unseasoned wood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, dialectal To
bathe (with warm liquid);foment . - verb transitive To
dry orheat (unseasoned)wood for the purpose of straightening it.
Etymologies
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Examples
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I thibk this is one movie I'll not await with baited beath.
First Look: Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time! « FirstShowing.net 2008
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They're intolerant and wrong. but you have them in Judaism too, look what the ultra orhodox are doing in israel, a minority, but they attack the hiloni Isralei's jews. beath the women, even set fire to their houses. so you will get extremists in all religions.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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_To beath_ is to heat unseasoned wood to harden and straighten it.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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It used equipment, dubbed Marsis, that consisted of a radar sounder with a 131 ft (40 m) antenna fitted to an orbiter that was then able to bounce radio waves 2.3 miles (3. 7km) beath the surface of Mars.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010
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Beath high school is played not, as is the mechanism for beath parish, muscle women.
DevicePedia.com 2010
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You really can't beath this value. on 10/18/2008 & rated 84 points: Ruby red.
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But the Oracle of Lanka, Murali, now backtracketh and sayeth there beath no conspiracy, and the NYT Ed hath brandisheth this about as gospel truth.
The Lede 2009
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February 24th, 2009 at 1: 59 am blink, has the best explanation, mike party correct, caustic is not the came, its what used to be in draino, dont mess with this chlorine gas, it deadly to beath for more then a few breaths,
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Shuler wasn't going to beath Burr because he wasn't going to win the Dem nomination anyway.
AroundTheCapitol.com 2009
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But the Oracle of Lanka, Murali, now backtracketh and sayeth there beath no conspiracy, and the NYT Ed hath brandisheth this about as gospel truth.
The Lede 2009
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