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Show B BA BA B A The apoftle had no fooner propofed it to th The fecond letter of- the Englit mafters at Athens, but he himfelf was ridicule alphabet, is pronounced as i r a babbl Roger B+ P moft other European languages 2. A teller of fecrets by prefling the whole length of the lip Utterers of fecrets he from thence debarr'd together, and forcing them open with Fuairy Babblers of folly, and blazers of crime ftrong breath wit the othe It ha a near affinit labia letters an i ‘confounded by the Germans with P and by the Gafcons with 7 ; from whic an epigrammatift remarks, that biber and wiwere are in Gafcony the fame The Spaniards, in moft words, ufe B o ¥ indifferently Baa. . /. [See the verb.] Thecry of fheep ~-Therefore thou art a fhee Such another proof would make me cry baa. Shak 7o Baa. v. u a theep [balo, Lat. T cry lik Or like a lamb, whofe dam away is fet biller, Fr. @. # imPrior 2. To talk idly, or irrationally John had conned over a catalogue of har words; thefe he ufed to abble indifferently in al companies Arbutbnot Let the filent fan&uary thow What from the babbling {chools we may not know _ Prior 3. To talk thoughtlefsly; to tell fecrets Do it with gentle means Ba'sBLE. #. [ [babil, Fr. fenfelefs prattle Addifon Idle talk This babble thall not henceforth trouble me Here is a coil with proteftation Come, no more ‘This is meer moral babble Shakefpeare Milton With volleys of eternal babble And clamour more unan{werable The babble, impertinence taken notice of in difputes Hudibras and folly, I hav Glanville Ba'BrLEMENT. 2./ [from abble.] Senfelefs prate; empty words Deluded all this while with ragged notions an babblements, while they expefted worth lightful knowledge BA"BBLER. 2 /. [from babble. 1. An idle talker and deMilton an irrational prattler ‘We hold our time too precious to be fpen With fuch a babdler Shakefpeare An infant Ba'sery. . /. [from babe.] Finer pleafe a babe or child t So have I feen trim books in velvet dight With golden leaves and painted baber adj. [from babe. him a babifp and ill brought up thing Bapo'on pofed b of babe monke Sidney Childith foon blufh they cal Afcham ». [ [babouin, Fr. It is fupStinner to be the augmentatio and to import a great babe.] of the largeft kind You had looked through the grate like a gemin of baboons Shakefpeare He caft every human feature out of his countenance, and became a baboon Addifon Ba'By. 7. /. [See Bakr. 1. A child ; an infant The baby beats the nurfe, and quite athwar Goes all decorum Shakefpeare The child muft have fugar plums, rather tha make the poor baby cry Locke He muft marry, and propagate : the father cannot ftay for the portion, nor the mother for dabe to play with 2 . Locke A fmall image in imitation of a child which girls play with The archduke faw that Perkin would prove runnagate; and it was the part of children t fall out about dabics Bacon Since no image can reprefent the great Creator neyer think to honour him by your foolifh puppets, and babies of dict and clay Stilling fleet Ba'ccaten. adj. [baccatus, Lat.] Befe with pearls ; having many berries. Digz Baccuana'Lian. z /i [from bacchanalia, Lat. A riotous perfon a drunk ard Ba'ccuanavs. . /. [bacchanalia, Lat. The drunken feafts and revels of Bacchus, the god of wine Ha, my brave emperor, fhall we dance now th Egyptian bacchanals, and celebrateour drink » Shak What wild fury was there in the heathen bacchanals, which we have not feen equalled Decay of Piety Both extremes were banifh'd from their walls Carthufian fafts, and fulfome bacchanals but very full and broad-leayed, M rtiy Bacci'FErOUS. adj. [from 6acca,‘_a,ber and fero, to bear, Lat.] Berry-bear Bacciferous trees are of four kinds, g 1. Such as bear a caliculate or naked Berry- flower and calix both falling off together, an leaving the berry bare; as the ,faffafrastreé;. 2. Such as have a naked monofpermou fryf that is, containing in it only one feed; a5 t}, containing two or more kernels or feeds withiilit I am a child to chiding Shake[peare Nor fhall Sebaftian's formidable nam Be longer us'd, to lull the crying babe Dryden The babe had all that infant care beguiles And early knew his mother in her fmiles. Dryd Ba'1sH 1ot 1 A'floWé 3. Such as have but polyfpermous fruit, that and eafy tafks Of feely boys, pleafe unacquainted fight BOLE. 7, / arbutes He might have chid me fo : for, in good faith The babbling echo mocks the hounds The babbling echo had defcry'd his face She, who in other's words her filence brealks babbacrd Welth Thofe that do teach your babes 4. To talk much Replying thrilly to the well tun'd horns As if a double hunt were heard at once, Shakefp And had I pow'r to give that knowledge birth In all the fpeeches of the babbling earth Prior L' Eftrange a child of either fex There is 'more danger in a referved and filen friend, than in a noify babbling enemy. L*Eftrange [baban If he be bafhful, and wil to prat My babbling praifes I repeat no more But hear, rejoice, ftand filent, and adore # [ are not fit for truft Dutch ; bambino, Italian. Sidney [babbelen, Germ. ba 1. To prattle like a child perfeétly Baee He treble baas for help, but norie can get 70 BA'BBLE Great babblers, or talkers Ba'ccHU Pope as the jefminum, liguftrum R 4. Such as have their fruit compofe of m acini, or round foft balls fet clofe together lik bunch of grapes as the uva marina Ry Bacci'vorous. adj. [from bacca,a berry and woro, to devour, Lat.] Devourin berries f Ba'caeror. . f. [This is 2 word o very uncertain etymology, it not bein - well known what was its original fenfe Funius derive Menage, fro the loweft ran a ftaff 5 Cwjas it from Bdunm@, foolifh bas chevalier, a knight o ; Spelman, from baculus from buccella, an alloy ance of provifion The moft probabl derivation feems to be from bacca lauris the berry of a laurel or bay ; bachelor being young, are of good hopes,ke laurels in the berry Dr. Lawrenc ob ferved, that Menage's etymology_-;sguc confirmed by the prattice in our univerfities of calling a Bachelor, Sin I Latin, baccalaureus. I. A man unmarried Such feparatio Becomes a virtuous bachelor and a mald'. Shakef The haunting of diffolute places, or rdort 1 courtefans, are no more punifhed in marrie than in bachelors e Bél‘)"" A true painter naturally delights in: the liber Diyd which belongs to the bachelor's eftate Let finful bachelors their woes deplore "l" Full well they meric all they feel, and more 2. A man who takes his firft degrees the univerfity in any profeffion Being a boy, new bachelor of arts I Cha/";[bm {peak againft the pope ?211:‘; ,;f behal i honour you befor Iappea nus Scx‘ible{us, bachelor of phyfic. Mart &_‘ b 1 3. A knight of the loweft order ; ééléf- a fenfe now little ufed Ba'cueLorsHIP. 7z /. [from The condition of a bachel?é. Her mother, living yet, can teftiiys, =0, She was the it fruit of my bacbelo;:/b};P' éfi;fi BACK. », /. [bac, bac, Sax. 546‘16‘&11' 1. The hinder part of the body neck to the thighs % Part following enter, part remaii W‘t;hi‘;r'e And mount on others backs, in hopes © 5 |