baby 
hence such phrases as tt> !imk hahi*-* in ../i/* fyett, used with 
regard to ii lover. 
No Jllore fool, 
To look ^-ay Ixtlli' * it! nnlll' Cf/r.v, \ouny Kohiml, 
And huiiK ahont your pretty neck. 
l-'liifhfr, Woman's I'riw, v. 1. 
But wee cannot so passe the centre of the Eye, which 
wee call 1'iipillit, ijuasi 1'llppu, the Mm- in Ilir cii- 'he 
.Si^ht. 1'urclnif. \licrocos. (Kill)), p. 'JO. 
4. Oue who is like a baby ; a childish person. 
Though he lie grave with years, he's a great baby. 
I'letcher(aiut aiuitlirr), Elder Brother, ill. 6. 
Baby act, a colloquial name Cor the leKal delense of in- 
fancy. Hence To plead the baby act. (<0 T<> plead 
that a contract is void lieean>e ma<le diiriTi^ one .s minor- 
ity, (d) To attempt to e\cu.-.c excessive, or feigned ijoio- 
rance or stupidity on the' ground of professed inexperience. 
[Colloquial in hotli uses. |- Bartholomew baby, a kind 
of doll sold originally at Bartholomew fair in London, and 
celebrated as the lies! then known. 
It also tells fanners what niniiner of wife they shall 
choose; not one trickt up with riMiens anil knots like a 
Ilarlfinlinit'-ir tialiif. J'oor Jtobin's Almaiutc, 1095. 
II. <i. 1. Babyish; infantine; pertaining to 
.in infant. 
S a conscience-stricken cravens, rock to rest 
Vour hull// hearts. SlirW-ii, 'Hie c Yuri, iv. '1. 
.Moulded thy baby thought. Trmiiimii, Elea v. 
2. Small, or comparatively small: as, a Italy 
engine. [Colloq.] 
baby (bii'bi), r. /.; pret. and pp. biibivd, ppr. 
biilii/iiii/. [< buliy, .] To treat like a young 
child. 
At hest it lutbifN us with endless toys, 
And keeps us children till we drop to dust. 
Young, Night Thoughts, vi. 521. 
baby-farm (ba'bi-farm), n. A place where chil- 
dren are received and cared for. 
baby-farmer (ba'bi-far*mer), n. One who re- 
ceives and contracts to care for the infants of 
those who, for any reason, may be unable or 
unwilling to bring up their own children. 
baby-farming (ba'bi-fiir"ming), n. The busi- 
ness carried on by a baby-farmer. 
babyhood (ba'bi-hud), n. < baby + -hood.'] 
The state of being a baby ; infancy. 
baby-house (ba'bi-hous), n. A toy house for 
children's dolls. 
babyish (ba'bi-ish), a. [< baby + -*s/<i.] Like 
a baby ; childish. 
babyishness (ba'bi-ish-nes), n. The quality of 
being like a baby; extreme childishness. 
babyism (ba'bi-izm), n. [< baby + -ism.'} 1. 
The state of being a baby ; babyhood. Jeffrey. 
2. A childish mode of speech ; childishness. 
liabyisim and dear diminutives. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
The egotism, the babyism, and the inconsistency of this 
transaction have no parallel. The Century, XXIV. 148. 
baby-jumper (ba'bi-jum'per), n. [< baby + 
jumper.] A basket or sling in which a small 
child may be fastened, having an adjustable 
elastic cord which permits a dancing motion 
when the child's feet touch the floor. 
Babylonian (bab-i-16'ni-an), a. and n. [< L. 
Babylon, < Gr. Ea/Mav (the city), or L. Baby- 
lonia, < Gr. Ba/Su/iwm (the province), the Gr. 
form of the Semitic name Babel or Bdbilu 
(Heb. Babel). See Babel. The original Acca- 
dian name of the city was Ca-dimirra.] I. a. 
1. Pertaining to Babylon, the capital of the 
ancient kingdom of Babylonia, or to the king- 
dom itself, liiiins of the city, in the form of three 
large mounds, exist near Hillah on the Euphrates, about 
M miles south of Bagdad on the Tigris. 
2. Like the confusion of tongues at Babel (= 
Babylon) ; mixed ; confused. 
This formal error [of applying the word " force " to all 
kinds of power, living or dead] has become a Pandora's 
box, whence has sprung a Baliylvnian confusion of tongues. 
Quoted in W. K. Grove's Corr. of Forces, p. 333. 
3f. [From a former common identification by 
Protestants of the "scarlet woman," "Baby- 
lon the great, the mother of harlots and abomi- 
nations" (Rev. xvii. 5), with the Papacy.] (a) 
Popish. (6) Scarlet Babylonian art, a subdivi- 
sion of Mesopotaiuiaii art ; the later development of Chal- 
dean art as practised at Babylon, both prior to the Assyrian 
domination, which began in the eleventh century B. c. and 
culminated in the ninth century, and after the restoration 
of the Babylonian kingdom, under Nabopolassar, about 
600 B. c. The architecture of Babylon, like that of As- 
syria, of which it was the model, employed as its chief 
material of construction the sun-dried brick, and held in 
general to the thick walls and massive forms which were 
imposed by this friable material. Stone was much more 
scarce in Babylonia than in Assyria ; hence Babylonian 
decoration adhered in the main to painting on a surface 
of plaster for interiors, and to brilliantly enameled tiles, 
often forming pictorial subjects of great size and variety, 
for exteriors. In Babylonia, contrary to Assyrian prac- 
tice, the temple, rising pyramidally in stages, each as- 
cended by broad flights of steps, and each of a distinct 
color, was the most important development of architec- 
ture, the royal palace being subordinated to it. The scar- 
city of stone rendered sculpture scanty ; but the gem-cnt- 
409 
bacchante 
tert art produced cylinder, or .seals in irrcat plenty and of claim the amount of their bet-, and the hanker takes the 
much merit, and pottery, metal- work, and textile fabrics stakes of the others. In America the gUM it tUgbtl) 
attained nre.it perfection. See Mi-*<>i>tiituiii lift, and com- dill'erent, court-cards and tens not counting. 
pare ' Vi"/'/"Mi lift all'l A*H>i/-i>in ili't, under the adjectives. baCCaret, il'ttl'i. See 
[< 
from 
-Babylonian Quartz sa as it,<M quarto (l,i.h baccarinine iba-kiir'i-iiin), . 
hce. ler ./<"'-'). Babylonian scale, the sexagesimal , 2 , nlk-iloiil olit-iine.l 
scale of numeration, whicli originateil in Babylonia. 
tttel!} 
II. . 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. 3f. A Papist. See 
I., 3. 
Babylonic (bab-i-lon'ik), a. [< L. Babyloiiicnx, 
< Hit Ill/Inn : see Babylonian.] 1. Pertaining to 
Babylon, or made there : as, Babylonia gar- 
ments, carpets, or hangings. 2. Tumultuous; 
disorderly. Kir J. Hurimjton. 
Babylonicalt (bab-i-lon'i-kal), a. Same as 
fliibylonie. 
Babylonish (bab-i-16'nish), a. [< Babylon + 
-is/i.] 1. Belonging to or made at Babylon. 
2. Babel-like; confused. 
Words which were a jwrfect Babylonish jargon to the 
bewildered Van Winkle. Irmmj, Sketch-Book, p. 59. 
3t. Popish. See Babylonian, a., 3. 
Babylonite (bab'i-lon-it), n. [< Babylon + 
-ite~.] The arrow-shaped Babylonish charac- 
ter. See arrow-headed and cuneiform. 
baby-pin (ba'bi-pin), n. A safety-pin. 
babyrussa, babyroussa, . See babirussa. 
babyship (ba'bi-ship), n. [< baby + -ship.] 
The state of being a baby ; babyhood. 
baby-walker (ba'bi-w8,*'ker), n. A frame, mov- 
ing on casters, in which a child may be sup- 
ported while learning to walk. 
bacH, n. An obsolete spelling of back 1 . 
bac 2 . See back 3 . 
bacaba-palm (ba-ka'ba-pam), n. [< S. Amer. 
bacaba + E. palm.] A' palm of northern Bra- 
zil, (Enocarpus distichus, with a tall trunk and 
widely spreading pinnate leaves. The drupaceous 
fruits are used by the natives for making a pleasant drink, 
and the kernels furnish an oil resembling that of the olive. 
bacbakiri (bak-ba-ke'ri), re. [Native name.] 
A name of an African shrike, Telejthonus guttu- 
ralis. 
baccalaurean (bak-a-la're-an), a. [< ML. bac- 
calaureus : see baccalaureate.] Of, pertaining 
to, or befitting a bachelor. 
That quiet, comfortable, baccalaurian habitation, over 
against the entrance into Bishopsgate Street. 
Dr. J. Brown, Spare Hours, 3d ser., p. 52. 
baccalaureate (bak-a-la're-at), n. and a. [< 
ML. NL. baccalaureatus, < baccalaureus, a cor- 
ruption (simulating L. bacca, berry, and laurus, 
laurel) of ML. baccalarius, a bachelor, one 
who has attained the lowest degree in a uni- 
versity: see bachelor.] I. n. 1. The university 
degree of bachelor. 2. A baccalaureate ser- 
mon (which see, below). 
H. a. Pertaining to the university degree of 
bachelor. Baccalaureate sermon, a farewell sermon 
delivered in some American colleges to a graduating class. 
Baccanarist (bak-a-nar'ist), n. In the Bom. 
Cath. Ch., a member of a society founded in 
Italy by one Baccanari after the suppression 
of the Jesuits in 1773, with the object of restor- 
ing that order under a new name and form. 
The society was merged in the reestablished 
order of Jesuits in 1814. 
baccara, baccarat (bak-a-ra'), n. [F.; origin 
unknown.] A French game of cards played by 
any number of betters and a banker, and with 
one or more packs of cards, according to the 
number of players. Each better deposits a stake, 
and all stakes are duplicated by the banker, after which 
the latter deals two cards to each player, including him- 
self. The aim is to decide each individual l>et by com- 
parison of the total count held by each better with that 
held by the banker. The court-cards each count 10, and 
the others according to the spots. The counts range in 
value by series of 9, 19, 29, 8, 18, 28, etc., 9 beating any 
other count. A player may call for more cards, but at 
the risk of exceeding 29 in count, which excess forfeits 
his bet. If a player's cards count 9 he declares it, when 
all who hold hands superior to that of the hanker may 
. 
baccate (Imk'sit ), (I. [< L. hiii-i-<itiin, liiii-iiliis, set 
with puarls, lit. berried, < bnn-n. burn, ;i ln-ri->. 
a pearl: sec /(//'] '" ''"' : '") I'nlpv '"id 
berry-like: applied to fruits. Se,- berry*, (h) 
Bearing berries ; berried. 
baccatedt (bak'ii-ted), <i. [< burrnti- + -P.J 
1. Set or ;n|orm>d with pcarl>. Hnili-i/. 2. 
Having manv berries, llniln/. 
Baccha (iMk'ii), . [ XL.: rf. <ir. -^X'l. u kind 
of pear.] A genus of tetiacliii'tous braehyce- 
rous dipterous insects, of the family Hi/r/iliiilir. 
bacchanal (bak'ii-iml), n. and H. [< L. luiri-lin- 
ini/ix, pertaining to Bacchus: see IliK'chun.] 
1. a. 1. Characterized by intemperate drink- 
ing; riotous; noisy: as, "bacchanal feasts," 
I'l-iiirlru, Deliberate Answer, fol. 20 (1587). 
2. Relating to or resembling a bacchanal or 
the bacchanalia. 
II. a. 1. One who celebrated the bacchanalia; 
a votary of Bacchus. Hence 2. One who in- 
dulges in drunken revels ; one who is noisy and 
riotous; a drunkard: as^ "each bold bni-rltu- 
i/dl," Byron, Don Juan, iii. 86. 
Each with the merry wink of a practiced bacchanal. 
T. Winthmp, Cecil Dreeme, x. 
3. i)l. Same as bacchanalia. 
In this masquerade of mirth and love, 
Mistook the bliss of heaven for bacchanals above. 
Dryden, II ind and Panther, L 387. 
Also bacchanalian. 
bacchanalia (bak-a-ua'lia), n. pi. [L. (OL. 
bacanalia), neut. pi', of bacchanalis, pertaining 
to Bacchus: see bacchanal.] 1. [<*</'.] In Horn. 
antiq., a festival in honor of Bacchus. These 
festivals became the occasion of great excesses, 
and were forbidden by the senate in 186 B. c. 
2. Any festivities characterized by jollity 
and good-fellowship, particularly if somewhat 
boisterous, and accompanied by much wine- 
drinking. 
The morning after the bacchanalia in the saloon of the 
palace. L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, p. 283. 
3. Drunken orgies; riotous disorders; ruthless 
and shameless excesses ; unbounded license. 
Plunging without restraint or shame into the Baccha- 
nalia of despotism, the king [John] continued to pillage, 
to banish, and to slay. Sir E. Creasy, Bug. Const., p. 110. 
bacchanalian (bak-a-na'lian), a. and n. [< 
bacchanalia + -an.] Same as bacchanal. [The 
more common form of the adjective.] 
Ev'n bacchanalian madness has its charms. 
Cmcjter, Progress of Error, 1. 56. 
Sculptures of the bacchanalians. StvJceley. 
bacchanalianism (bak-a-na'lian-izm), n. [< 
bacchanalian + -4gm.] The practice of baccha- 
nalian rites; drunken revelry; riotous festivity. 
bacchanalianly (bak-a-na'lian-li), adv. In a 
bacchanalian manner. 
bacchant (bak'ant), a. and . [< L. bacchan(t-)s, 
ppr. of baechari, celebrate the feast of Bacchus, 
< Bacchus, Bacchus. Cf. bacchante.] I. a. 
Worshiping Bacchus; reveling. 
Over his shoulder with a bacchant air 
Presented the o'erflowing cup. 
Byron, Don Juan, iii. 43. 
II. n. 1. A priest, priestess, or votary of 
Bacchus; a bacchanal. 
They appear hi a state of intoxication, and are the bac- 
chants in a delirium. Kees, Cyc., under Alme. 
2. One addicted to intemperance or riotous 
revelry. 3. A name given in Germany, in the 
fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries, 
to wandering scholars who traveled from one 
institution of learning to another. These bac- 
chants frequently had younger students under their pro- 
tection and instruction, who waited upon them, begged 
for them, etc. 
bacchante (bak'ant, ba-kant', orba-kan'te), n. ; 
pi. bacchantes (bak'antz; usually, as if L., ba- 
kan'tez). [< F. bacchante = Sp. bacante = Pg. 
bacchante =s It. baccante, < L. bacchan(t-)s (ace. 
bacchantem), pi. bacchantes, used, as a noun, 
only in fern, (equiv. to Bacchce), prop. ppr. of 
baechari, celebrate the feast of Bacchus. In 
mod. use also masc. : see bacchant. The E. form, 
prop, bacchant, usually follows the F. spelling, 
and often the F. accent (ba-kant'). The pi. 
is usually in the L. form, whence the irreg. 
sing, in 3 syllables (ba-kan'te).] 1. In antiq., 
a priestess of Bacchus, or a woman who joined 
in the celebration of the festivals of Bacchus; 
