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11,860 words match “BA”

BA v.
To kiss. [Obs.] Chaucer.
BAA v. 2 definitions
To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep. He treble baas for help, but none can get. Sir P. Sidney.
BAAING n.
The bleating of a sheep. Marryat.
BAAL n. 2 definitions
The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied. Judges x. 6.
BAALISM n.
Worship of Baal; idolatry.
BAALIST; BAALITE n.
A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.
BAB n.
Lit., gate; -- a title given to the founder of Babism, and taken from that of Bab-ud-Din, assumed by him.
BABA n.
A kind of plum cake.
BABBITT v.
To line with Babbitt metal.
BABBITT METAL n.
A soft white alloy of variable composition (as a nine parts of tin to one of copper, or of fifty parts of tin to five of antimony and one of copper) used in bearings to diminish friction.
BABBLE v. 8 definitions
To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles.
BABBLEMENT n.
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.
BABBLERY n.
Babble. [Obs.] Sir T. More
BABE n. 2 definitions
An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
BABEHOOD n.
Babyhood. [R.] Udall.
BABEL n. 2 definitions
f Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place. Therefore is the name of it called Babel. Gen. xi. 9.
BABERY n.
Finery of a kind to please a child. [Obs.] "Painted babery." Sir P. Sidney.
BABIAN; BABION n.
A baboon. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
BABILLARD n.
The lesser whitethroat of Europe; -- called also babbling warbler.
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