air-bath
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.39 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of air bath.
Example Sentences
- "It amused poor Dencombe, as he dawdled in his tepid air-bath, to think that he was waiting for a revelation of something at the back of a fine young mind."
- "The chapter is then closed with a critical comparison between air-bath, water-jacket and contact heating ovens."
- "Hardly were the words out of my mouth when his lordship leaped from the bed, and in the scantiest drapery imaginable, seized me by the collar, inflicting such a shaking as I would willingly have exchanged for a tertian ague from the Pontine marshes. The sudden air-bath probably cooled his choler, for, in a few moments, we found ourselves in a pacific explanation about the luckles pencil.."
- "If one is forced to take one's sun and air-bath in the bedroom, the brightest room in the house should be chosen for sleeping in, instead of being reserved for a drawing-room; and, above all things, away with curtains and hangings."