The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.

Worship of Baal; idolatry.

A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.

Lit., gate; -- a title given to the founder of Babism, and taken from that of Bab-ud-Din, assumed by him.

A kind of plum cake.

a tall feather palm of northern Brazil (Orbignya barbosiana) with hard-shelled nuts yielding a valuable oil (babassu oil) and a kind of vegetable ivory.

To line with Babbitt metal.

lining a surface or bearing with babbitt metal.

Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle.

Babble.

An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets.

Babble.

Babyhood.

The city and tower in the land of Shinar, where the confusion of languages took place.

Finery of a kind to please a child.

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 Muslim, Christian, Jewish, and Parsi elements. This doctrine forbids concubinage and polygamy, and frees women from many of the degradations imposed upon them among the orthodox Muslims. Mendicancy, the use of intoxicating liquors and drugs, and slave dealing, are forbidden; asceticism is discountenanced.

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

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.

A baboon.

A large hoglike quadruped (Sus babirussa, syn. 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.

A believer in Babism.

The rind of the fruit of several East Indian species of acacia; neb-neb. It contains gallic acid and tannin, and is used for dyeing drab.

Any one of several species of Acacia, esp. Acacia Arabica, which yelds a gum used as a substitute for true gum arabic.

One 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.

Like a baboon.

A Hindu gentleman; a native clerk who writes English; also, a Hindu title equivalent to the English Mr. or Esquire.

To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle.

delicate California annual having blue flowers marked with dark spots.

having a face resembling that of a baby

act as a baby-sitter

A person engaged to care for children when the parents are not home.

a framework on small wheels or casters designed to support small children while they are learning to walk, and usually having a fabric support that permits the child to sit. Called also walker and go-cart.

The state or period of infancy.

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

Like a baby; childish; puerile; simple.

The state of being a baby.

An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.

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

Of or pertaining to, or made in, Babylon or Babylonia.

See Babiroussa.

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

the work of a baby sitter; caring for children when their parents are not home.

A broad, flat-bottomed ferryboat, usually worked by a rope.

an indehiscent fruit derived from a single ovary having one or many seeds within a fleshy wall or pericarp: e. g. grape; tomato; cranberry.

Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.

A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.

Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits.

Having many berries.

A devotee of Bacchus; one who indulges in drunken revels; one who is noisy and riotous when intoxicated; a carouser.

A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.

The practice of bacchanalians; bacchanals; drunken revelry.

Bacchanalian; fond of drunken revelry; wine-loving; reveling; carousing.

A priestess of Bacchus.

Bacchanalian.

Of or relating to Bacchus; hence, jovial, or riotous, with intoxication; riotously drunken; -- used of revelrous gatherings.

A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

The god of wine, son of Jupiter and Semele.

Producing berries.

Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds.

See Base.

A man of any age who has not been married.

a knight of the lowest order; he was permitted to display only a pennon.

The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.

The state or condition of being a bachelor; bachelorship.

Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging to bachelors.

The state of being a bachelor.

The body of young aspirants for knighthood.

Shaped like a rod or staff.

See Diatom.

Of or pertaining to little rods; rod-shaped.

plural of bacillus; usually designating aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacteria; they often occur in chainlike formations.

Rod-shaped.

A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

a polypeptide antibacterial antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms, and usually used topically for superficial local infection.

In, to, or toward, the rear; as, to stand back; to step back.

Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; a second staircase at the rear of a building; hence, a private or indirect way.

to serve as a backup{3} for (another person or persons); as, the patrolmen backed up the detectives as they went inside to make the arrest; the center fielder backed up the shortstop on the play.

a discussion; give-and-take.

To have or experience a back fire or back fires; -- said of an internal-combustion engine.

a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it, such as emote from emotion.

occurring immediately one after the other; consecutive.

an ache localized in the back.

See Bacharach.

A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.

Same as Baccare.

Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.

The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

any of the seats occupied by backbenchers in the House of Commons of Great Britain.

a member of the House of Commons of Great Britain who is not a party leader.

an acrobatic feat in which the trunk is bent backward from a standing position until the hands touch the floor.

To censure or revile the absent.

One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.

Secret slander; detraction.

An instrument which, in conjunction with another making an absolute disposition, constitutes a trust.

Vertebrate.

Anything which brings misfortune upon one, or causes failure in an effort or enterprise; a reverse.

to make effective from an earlier date; to make retroactive.

Acting from behind and in concealment; backstairs; as, backdoor intrigues.

A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.

the scenery hung at back of stage. Also called in Britain backcloth.

Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.

One who, or that which, backs; especially one who backs a person or thing in a contest.

A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.

A secret enemy.

In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first /table/. When played for betting purposes, the winner in such a case scores three times the wagered amount.

The execution of low priority programs while higher priority programs are not using the processing system.

Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting.

With the hand turned backward; as, a backhanded blow.

Stroked with a backhand{2}; as, a backhanded drive.

State of being backhanded; the using of backhanded or indirect methods.

A backhanded blow.

A method of tripping by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back; a throw made in this way. To trip (a person) in this way.

A building behind the main building. A privy; an outhouse; a necessary.

The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward.

A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slab or other filling.

The distance through which one part of connected machinery, as a wheel, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, resulting from looseness in fitting or from wear; also, the jarring or reflex motion caused in badly fitting machinery by irregularities in velocity or a reverse of motion.

Without a back.

A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth. Contrasted to forestick.