Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BAGN'IO, n. [ban'yo; It. bagno; Sp. baño; Port. banho; Fr. bain; L. balneum.]

1. A bath; a house for bathing, cupping, sweating and otherwise cleansing the body. In Turkey, it is the name of prisons where slaves are kept; so called from the baths which they contain. – Encyc.
2. A brothel.