air-bath

plural air-baths

1. alternativeAlternative form of air bath.

   The chapter is then closed with a critical comparison between air-bath, water-jacket and contact heating ovens.

   2010, Thorsten Teutenberg, High-temperature Liquid Chromatography

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   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.

   1895, Henry James, The Middle Years

   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..

   2012, Captain Theodore Canot, Adventures of an African Slaver

   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.

   2013, J. P. Muller, My Sun-Bathing and Fresh-Air System