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noun

Baby n. (pl. babies)

An infant or young child of either sex; a babe.

A small image of an infant; a doll.

Babies in the eyes, the minute reflection which one sees of one's self in the eyes of another. "She clung about his neck, gave him ten kisses, Toyed with his locks, looked babies in his eyes."

verb

Baby v. t. (past & past part. babied; pres. part. babying) To treat like a young child; to keep dependent; to humor; to fondle.

adjective

Baby adj. Pertaining to, or resembling, an infant; young or little; as, baby swans. "Baby figure"

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Etymology of 'Baby'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Baby" Quotes from Famous Books

... would do so. He sat, leaning back as though exceedingly feeble, scarcely speaking, but his eyes eloquent with eagerness. And very fine eyes they were! Ethel remembered her own weariness, some twelve or fourteen years back, of the raptures of her baby-loving sisters about those eyes; and now in the absence of the florid colouring of health, she was the more struck by the beauty of the deep liquid brown, of the blue tinge of the white, and of the lustrous light that resided in them, but far ...

— The Trial - or, More Links of the Daisy Chain • Charlotte M. Yonge

... ashore there are hundreds of little vehicles called jinrikishas, which look something like baby carriages with only one seat and an umbrella. The Japs will come trooping around jabbering to you to ride. You get in one and a Jap will get between a small pair of shafts and trot away with you, and go that way as long as you want him to for ten cents an hour. The traveler can go anywhere he desires ...

— A Soldier in the Philippines • Needom N. Freeman

... said the superintendent. "Now I'll have Bradford pull us up on the spur to give you room to get your baby crane ahead; then you can pull down ...

— The Taming of Red Butte Western • Francis Lynde

... plump baby hung limply over the woman's left arm looked most uncomfortable. The baby, however, seemed highly content. Both his sticky fists clutched firmly a generous "chunk" of new maple-sugar, which he mumbled with his toothless gums, while his big eyes, widening like an owl's, stared about through ...

— The House in the Water - A Book of Animal Stories • Charles G. D. Roberts

... little man with a round, innocent face, and flaxen hair rising in a curly halo about it. His china-blue eyes had all the trust and surprise of a newly awakened baby. Life had always been to Pa Tapkins a mild series of shocks, and he parried each statement and circumstance in order that he might haply recognize it if he ran across it again, or, more properly speaking, if it struck ...

— Janet of the Dunes • Harriet T. Comstock

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