4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Babe \Babe\, n. [Cf. Ir bab, baban, W. baban, maban.]
1. An infant; a young child of either sex; a baby.
2. A doll for children. --Spenser.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
babe
n : a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun
to walk or talk; "isn't she too young to have a baby?"
[syn: {baby}, {infant}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Babe
used of children generally (Matt. 11:25; 21:16; Luke 10:21; Rom.
2:20). It is used also of those who are weak in Christian faith
and knowledge (1 Cor. 3:1; Heb. 5:13; 1 Pet. 2:2). In Isa. 3:4
the word babes" refers to a succession of weak and wicked
princes who reigned over Judah from the death of Josiah downward
to the destruction of Jerusalem.
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
BABE or :BABY:, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or
condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and
antipathies it excites in others itself without sentiment or emotion.
There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose
adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries
before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being
preserved on a floating lotus leaf.
Ere babes were invented
The girls were contended.
Now man is tormented
Until to buy babes he has squandered
His money. And so I have pondered
This thing and thought may be
'T were better that Baby
The First had been eagled or condored
Ro Amil
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