Part 838

<h1>Baa</h1> <Xpage=109>

<hw>Baa</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Baas</plw></plu>. <ety>[Cf. G. b\'84.]</ety> <def>The cry or bleating of a sheep; a bleat.</def>

<h1>Baaing</h1> <Xpage=109>

<hw>Baa"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The bleating of a sheep.</def>

<i>Marryat.</i>

<h1>Baal</h1> <Xpage=109>

<hw>Ba"al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>Heb. pl. <plw>Baalim</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt></plu>. <ety>[Heb. <ets>ba'al</ets> lord.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Myth.)</fld> <def>The supreme male divinity of the Phoenician and Canaanitish nations.</def>

<note>&hand; The name of this god occurs in the Old Testament and elsewhere with qualifying epithets subjoined, answering to the different ideas of his character; as, <i>Baal</i>-berith (the Covenant Baal), <i>Baal</i>-zebub (Baal of the fly).</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <def>The whole class of divinities to whom the name Baal was applied.</def>

<i>Judges x. 6.</i>

<h1>Baalism</h1> <Xpage=109>

<hw>Ba"al*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Worship of Baal; idolatry.</def>

<h1>Baalist, Baalite</h1> <Xpage=109>

<hw><hw>Ba"al*ist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ba"al*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <def>A worshiper of Baal; a devotee of any false religion; an idolater.</def>

<h1>Baba</h1> <Xpage=109>

<hw>Ba"ba</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <def>A kind of plum cake.</def>

<h1>Babbitt</h1> <Xpage=109>

<hw>Bab"bitt</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To line with Babbitt metal.</def>

<h1>Babbitt metal</h1> <Xpage=109>

<hw>Bab"bitt met`al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[From the inventor, Isaac <ets>Babbitt</ets> of Massachusetts.]</ety> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Babble</h1> <Xpage=109>

<hw>Bab"ble</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Babbled</er> (<?/);<tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Babbling</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf.LG. <ets>babbeln</ets>, D. <ets>babbelen</ets>, G. <ets>bappeln</ets>, <ets>bappern</ets>, F. <ets>babiller</ets>, It. <ets>babbolare</ets>; prob. orig., to keep saying <ets>ba</ets>, imitative of a child learning to talk.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child <i>babbles</i>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To talk much; to chatter; to prate.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To make a continuous murmuring noise, as shallow water running over stones.</def>

<blockquote>In every <b>babbling</b> he finds a friend. <i> Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; Hounds are said to <i>babble</i>, or to be <i>babbling</i>, when they are too noisy after having found a good scent.</note>