transferred and figurative. The baptismal font; the spiritual ‘washing’ of baptism; in wider sense, any spiritually cleansing agency. After Greek…

A vessel for washing.

figurative and in figurative contexts, chiefly with reference to spiritual cleansing through baptism, confession, suffering, etc. Cf. lavacre, n.…

The vessel in which this water is held.

(= sense 11.)

A vessel or receptacle intended to contain water for the purpose of bathing. (Cf. 17.)

A bathing-tub, bath-tub (of any shape); colloquial or jocularly, a bath; hence, the action or practice of taking a bath, esp. on rising.

Chiefly in English public schools: an outdoor conduit for washing; a tub, trough, or other container for water; a washroom.

= sense 11; cf. bath-fat n. at compounds 1a.

A bathing-place, a bath. Also attributive. Hence as v. intransitive, to bathe.