1. An official prohibition; SYN. banning, forbiddance, forbidding.
2. Censure or condemnation especially through social pressure.
3. The summoning in feudal times of the king's vassals for military service.

Historic city in Avon, England; Industries include printing, plastics, and engineering.
features
Hot springs; the ruins of the baths after which it is named, as well as a great temple, are the finest Roman remains in Britain. Excavations 1979 revealed thousands of coins and “curses”, offered at a place which was thought to be the link between the upper and lower worlds. The Gothic Bath Abbey has an unusually decorated west front and fan vaulting. There is much 18th-century architecture, notably the Royal Crescent by John Wood. The Assembly Rooms 1771 were destroyed in an air raid 1942 but reconstructed 1963. The Bath Festival Orchestra is based here.
history
The Roman spa town of Aquae Sulis (“waters of Sul”—the British goddess of wisdom) was built in the first 20 years after the Roman invasion. In medieval times the hot springs were crown property, administered by the church, but the city was transformed in the 18th century to a fashionable spa, presided over by “Beau” Nash. At his home here the astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus 1781. Visitors included the novelists Tobias Smollett, Henry Fielding, and Jane Austen.
1. A tub in which ones soaks one's body.
2. The act of soaking one's body in order to clean it.
3. A vessel in which something is immersed to maintain it at a constant temperature or to process or lubricate it.
4. An ancient Hebrew liquid measure equal to about 10 gallons.

1. A resort offering therapeutic baths (often from hot springs).
2. Any luxurious hotel.
3. Any hotel offering a regimen of healthy food and activities; a health spa.

1. A stone in a marsh or shallow water that can be stepped on in crossing.
2. Any means of advancement; steppingstone

To suffer a heavy financial loss.

One who bathes.

ETYM Old Eng. welle, AS. wella, wylla, from weallan to well up, surge, boil; akin to Dutch wel a spring or fountain. Related to Well.
1. A deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine.
2. An abundant source; SYN. wellspring, fountainhead.
3. An open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway).
4. An enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps.

One who bathes.

Town with a spring, the water of which, it is claimed, has the power to cure illness and restore health. Spa treatment involves drinking and bathing in the naturally mineralized spring water.
The name derives from the Belgian town of Spa, whose mineral springs have attracted patients since the 14th century. The earliest spas date from Roman times.

(Switzerland).
Town in Aargau canton, Switzerland, near Zurich; at an altitude of 388 m/1,273 ft; Its hot sulfur springs and mineral waters have been visited since Roman times.
Borough in Pennsylvania (USA); zip code 15005.
(Germany).
Former state of SW Germany, which had Karlsruhe as its capital. Baden was captured from the Romans in 282 by the Alemanni; later it became a margravate and in 1806, a grand duchy. A state of the German empire 1871–1918, then a republic, and under Hitler a Gau (province), it was divided between the Länder of Württemberg-Baden and Baden in 1945 and in 1952 made part of Baden-Württemberg.

ETYM Old Eng. welle, AS. wella, wylla, from weallan to well up, surge, boil; akin to Dutch wel a spring or fountain. Related to Well.
1. A deep hole or shaft dug or drilled to obtain water or oil or gas or brine.
2. An abundant source; SYN. wellspring, fountainhead.
3. An open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway).
4. An enclosed compartment in a ship or plane for holding something as e.g. fish or a plane's landing gear or for protecting something as e.g. a ship's pumps.