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15,442 words match “AB”

BABBLE v. 8 definitions

To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.

Babble. Hawthorne.

BABBLER n. 3 definitions

An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange.

Babble. [Obs.] Sir T. More

BABE n. 2 definitions

An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.

Babyhood. [R.] Udall.

BABEL n. 2 definitions

Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.

Finery of a kind to please a child. [Obs.] "Painted babery." Sir P. Sidney.

BABIAN; BABION n.

A baboon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.

BABINGTONITE n.

A mineral occurring in triclinic crystals approaching pyroxene in angle, and of a greenish black color. It is a silicate of iron, manganese, and lime.

BABIROUSSA; BABIRUSSA n.

A large hoglike quadruped (Sus, or Porcus, babirussa) of the East Indies, sometimes domesticated; the Indian hog. Its upper canine teeth or tusks are large and recurved.

Like a babe; a childish; babyish. [R.] "Babish imbecility." Drayton. -- Bab"ish*ly, adv. -- Bab"ish*ness, n. [R.]

The doctrine of a modern religious sect, which originated in Persia in 1843, being a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish and Parsee elements.

BABISM; BABIISM n.

The doctrine of a modern religious pantheistical sect in Persia, which was founded, about 1844, by Mirza Ali Mohammed ibn Rabhik (1820 -- 1850), who assumed the title of Bab-ed-Din (Per., Gate of the Faith). Babism is a mixture of Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish, and Parsi elements. This doctrine forbids concubinage and…

A believer in Babism.

species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

A Hindoo gentleman; native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindoo title answering to Mr. or Esquire. Whitworth.

ne of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

Baboonish behavior. Marryat.