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Babes in the Wood
Language; Encyclopedias
Irish banditti who infested the Wicklow Mountains in the 18th century, and were guilty of the greatest atrocities. See Children.
Babrius
Language; Encyclopedias
Or Gabrius, a Greek poet of uncertain date; turned the fables of Aesop and of others into verse, with alterations.
Baby-farming
Language; Encyclopedias
A system of nursing new-born infants whose parents may wish them out of sight.
Baboo
Language; Encyclopedias
Or Babu, name applied to a native Hindu gentleman who has some knowledge of English.
Ballarat
Language; Encyclopedias
A town in Victoria, and since 1851 the second city in the province, about 100 m. NW. of Melbourne; the centre of the chief gold-fields in the colony, the precious metal being at first washed out of ...
Balmoral
Language; Encyclopedias
A castle on the upper valley of the Dee, at the foot of Braemar, 52½ m. from Aberdeen, 9 m. from Ballater; the Highland residence of Queen Victoria, on a site which took the fancy of both the Queen ...
Balkh
Language; Encyclopedias
Anciently called Bactria, a district of Afghan Turkestan lying between the Oxus and the Hindu-Kush, 250 m. long and 120 m. broad, with a capital of the same name, reduced now to a village; birthplace ...
