Webster's Dictionary 1913

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B

B (bē) is the second letter of the English alphabet. (See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 196, 220.) It is etymologically related to p, v, f, w, and m, letters representing sounds ha...

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Ba

Ba (bä), v. t. [Cf. OF. baer to open the mouth, F. bayer.] To kiss. Chaucer.

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Baa

Baa (bä), v. i. [Cf. G. bäen; an imitative word.] To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep.He treble baas for help, but none can get.Sir P. Sidney.

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Baa (2)

Baa (bä), n.; pl.Baas (bäz). [Cf. G. bä.] The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat.

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Baaing

Baa″ing, n. The bleating of a sheep. Marryat.

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Baal

Ba″al (bā″al), n.; Heb. pl. Baalim (–ĭm). [Heb. ba'al lord.] 1. (Myth.) The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.☞ The name of this god occurs in the ...

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Baalism

Ba″al‐ism (–ĭz'm), n. Worship of Baal; idolatry.

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Baalist

{ Ba″al‐ist (�), Ba″al‐ite (�), } n. A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

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Bab

Bab (?), n. Lit., gate; — a title given to the founder of Babism, and taken from that of Bab-ud-Din, assumed by him.

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Baba

‖Ba″ba (�), n. A kind of plum cake.

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Babbitt

Bab″bitt (�), v. t. To line with Babbitt metal.

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Babbitt metal

Bab″bitt met′al (�). [From the inventor, Isaac Babbitt of Massachusetts.] A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts ...

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Babble

Bab″ble (băb″b'l), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Babbled (–b'ld); p. pr. & vb. n.Babbling.] [Cf.LG. babbeln, D. babbelen, G. bappeln, bappern, F. babiller, It. babbolare; prob. orig., to k...

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Babble (2)

Bab″ble, v. t. 1. To utter in an indistinct or incoherent way; to repeat, as words, in a childish way without understanding.These he used to babble in all companies.Arbuthnot.2....

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Babble (3)

Bab″ble, n. 1. Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. “This is mere moral babble.” Milton.2. Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.The babble of our young chi...

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Babblement

Bab″ble‐ment (�), n. Babble. Hawthorne.

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Babbler

Bab″bler (�), n. 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets.Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust.L'Estrange.2. A hound too noisy on finding a good...

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Babblery

Bab″ble‐ry (�), n. Babble. Sir T. More.

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Babe

Babe (bāb), n. [Cf. Ir. bab, baban, W. baban, maban.]1. An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.2. A doll for children. Spenser.

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Babehood

Babe″hood (�), n. Babyhood. Udall.

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Babel

Ba″bel (�), n. [Heb. Bābel, 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 con...

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Babery

Bab″er‐y (�), n. [Perh. orig. for baboonery. Cf. Baboon, and also Babe.] Finery of a kind to please a child. “Painted babery.” Sir P. Sidney.

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Babian

{ Ba″bi‐an (�), Ba″bi‐on } (�), n. [See Baboon.] A baboon. B. Jonson.

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Babillard

‖Bab″il‐lard (�), n.(Zoöl.) The lesser whitethroat of Europe; — called also babbling warbler.

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Babingtonite

Bab″ing‐ton‐ite (�), n. [From Dr. Babbington.] (Min.) A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of...

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Babiroussa

{ ‖Bab′i‐rous″sa, ‖Bab′i‐rus″sa} (�), n. [F. babiroussa, fr. Malay bābī hog + rūsa deer.] (Zoöl.) A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, orPorcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, someti...

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Babish

Bab″ish (�), a. Like a babe; a childish; babyish. “Babish imbecility.” Drayton. — Bab″ish‐ly, adv. — Bab″ish‐ness, n.