air bath

Noun

air bath (plural air baths)

1. The exposure to fresh air, especially when naked or nearly naked.
   • I could punch keys on a logic without gazing into somebody's bedroom while she is giving her epidermis an air bath and being led to think things I gotta take out in thinkin'.2010, Tom Easton, Judith K. Dial, Visions of Tomorrow: Science Fiction Predictions that Came True
   • Cleverly he'd chosen four who not only strip themselves at the slightest provocation to enjoy a cold air bath but are free of the usual licentious habits of such types.2014, Greg Hollingshead, Bedlam: A Novel of Love and Madness
2. (physical) A sealed system containing air with a controlled temperature.
   • After achieving the satisfactory pressure, heating of flask is carried out by using a water bath, oil-bath or air bath.2010, V. K. Ahluwalia, Pooja Bhagat, Renu Aggarwal, Laboratory Techniques in Organic Chemistry, page 98
   • The colorless needles can be further purified by bulb-to-bulb distillation (air bath temperature 90 – 110 °C).2014, W. A. Herrmann, Synthetic Methods of Organometallic and Inorganic Chemistry
3. Synonym of compressed-air bath.
   • Every large hospital now has quarters where patients may take the healing sun bath at certain times of the day. You can take your sun bath in the same manner as the air bath.1912, The Progressive Woman
   • They would be allowed to take sponge baths every other day, or use the newly invented “air bath.”2013, Erika Judit Kovács, RE-EMERGENCE, page 62

   Synonyms:

   compressed-air bath