BATH, TAN
\bˈaθ], \bˈaθ], \b_ˈa_θ]\
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An astringent bath, prepared, at times, by boiling two or three handfuls of ground oak-bark,-such as is used by tanners-in two or three quarts of water, for half an hour, and then adding the decoction to the water of the bath.
By Robley Dunglison