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Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans. "Baby figure" Shak.

A place where the nourishment and care of babies are offered for hire.

One who keeps a baby farm.

The business of keeping a baby farm.

A hoop suspended by an elastic strap, in which a young child may be held secure while amusing itself by jumping on the floor.

The state or period of infancy.

A place for children's dolls and dolls' furniture. Swift.

Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple. -- Ba"by*ish*ly, adv. -- Ba"by*ish*ness, n.

The state of being a baby.

Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.

Pertaining to Babylon, or made there; as Babylonic garments,carpets, or hangings.

Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia. "A Babylonish garment." Josh. vii. 21.

See Babyroussa.

The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.

A doll or image decorated with corn (grain) flowers, etc., carried in the festivals of a kern, or harvest-home. Called also harvest queen.

rst month of the Jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding nearly to our April. After the Babylonish captivity this month was called Nisan. Kitto.

Pertaining to a race supposed to have lived in Babylonia before the Assyrian conquest. -- Ac*ca"di*an, n., Ac"cad, n. Sayce.

cords formerly used in dress. They were sometimes formed into small images. Hence, "aglet baby" (Shak.), an aglet image.

es, and subsequently in Persia, and abounding among the ruins of Persepolis, Nineveh, and Babylon. See Cuneiform.

word, while the consonants of the two words are unlike in sound; as, calamo and platano, baby and chary. The assonance is peculiar to the Spaniard. Hallam.