batebreedingt (batbre"ding)

[ IMG:content-1748.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Badge worn suspended from the collar of a knight of the Bath. 2. Star of the Grand Cro . badge (fig. 1) is a golden Maltese cro of eight points, with the lion of England in the four principal angles, and having in a circle in the center the rose, thistle, and shamrock (representing respectively England, Scotland, and Ireland), between three imperial crowns; motto, Tria juncta IMG:content-1749.png:[blocks in formation] in uno. Stars are also worn by the first two cla es. bathetic (bā-thet'ik), a. [ pathetic, eight points of rays wavy, on which is a gold cro bearing i zed by three crowns, encircled by a ribbon displaying the motto of the order, while beneath is a scroll inscribed Ich dien (I serve), the motto of the Prince of Wales. The star of the knights commanders differs chiefly in lacking the wavy rays.- Medicated bath, a bath of liquid or vapor designed to produce a curative effect by virtue of some metal, tin, and lead are employed for such baths.- Ru ian bath, a kind of bath employed in Ru ia, and introduced thence in other countries. It resembles in principle the ancient and the Turkish baths, but differs from the latter in that the subject, after exposure to the influence of very hot vapor, with the attendant kneading, lathering, etc., is suddenly and violently cooled by means A fatal insensibility to the ludicrous and the bathetic . The Academy, July 3, 1875, p. 5.