1. An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
2. A doll for children. Spenser.
BABEHOOD
Babe"hood, n.
Defn: Babyhood. [R.] Udall.
BABEL Ba"bel, n. Etym: [Heb. Babel, the name of the capital of Babylonia; in Genesis associated with the idea of "confusion">[
1. The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.
2. Hence: A place or scene of noise and confusion; a confused mixture of sounds, as of voices or languages. That babel of strange heathen languages. Hammond. The grinding babel of the street. R. L. Stevenson.
BABERY
Bab"er*y, n. Etym: [Perh. orig. for baboonery. Cf. Baboon, and also
Babe.]
Defn: Finery of a kind to please a child. [Obs.] "Painted babery."
Sir P. Sidney.
BABIAN; BABION
Ba"bi*an, Ba"bi*on, n. Etym: [See Baboon]