babillard (babilard)

[F., Baboon (Cynocephalus maim on). baby (bā'bi), n . and a . [Also dial. babby ; early mod. E. also babie , babee , babi , dim. of babe.] I. n.; pl. babies (-biz). 1. An infant or young child of either sex; a babe. I knew them all as babies , and now they're elderly men. Tennyson, The Grandmother. IMG:content-1507.png:[graphic] 21. A doll. The archduke saw that Perkin would prove a runagate; and it was the part of children to fall out about babies . Bacon . These [boxes] are to have Folding-Doors, which being open'd, you are to behold a Baby dre 'd out in some Fashion which has flourish'd, and standing upon a Pedestal, where the Time of its Reign is mark'd down. Spectator , No. 478. 31. [Cf. E. pupil , pupilla , a girl, the pupil of the eye.] The minute reflection which a person sees of himself in the pupil of another's eye. There are many allusions to this in our older poets; IMG:content-1508.png:[blocks in formation] hence such phrases as to look babies in one's eyes, used with ter's art produced cylinders or seals in great plenty and of regard to a lover. No more fool, To look gay babies in your eyes , young Roland, And hang about your pretty neck. much merit, and pottery, metal-work, and textile fabrics attained great perfection. See Me so pot am i an art , and com- pare Chaldean art and A yrian art , under the adjectives. -Babylonian quartz. Same as Babel quartz (which see, under quartz ) Babylonian scale, the sexagesimal -ine2 .] An alkaloid obtained from Baccharis scale of numeration, which originated in Babylonia. baccaret, interj . See backare . bac car i nine (ba-kar'i-nin), n. [ Baccharis + cord i folia . baccate (bak'āt), a. [L. baccatus , bacatus , set with pearls, lit. berried, bacca , bāca , a berry, a pearl: see bay1.] In bot .: (a) Pulpy and berry-like: applied to fruits. See berryl. (b) Bearing berries; berried. IMG:content-1509.png:[graphic] IMG:content-1510.png:[blocks in formation] At best it babies us with endle toys, And keeps us children till we drop to dust. II. n. 1. An inhabitant of Babylonia; a Chaldean.-2. An astrologer: so used from the fact that the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology. -3†. A Papist. See