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Zaharias or Herman
Answer for the clue "Zaharias or Herman ", 4 letters:
babe
Alternative clues for the word babe
Word definitions for babe in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., short for baban (early 13c.), which probably is imitative of baby talk (see babble ), however in many languages the cognate word means "old woman" (compare Russian babushka "grandmother," from baba "peasant woman").\n\nCrist crid in cradil, "moder, ...
Usage examples of babe.
Agatha bathed the babe while Galswinthe and Elspeth helped to rid Aelveva of the afterbirth, then cleansed her.
She has helped birth many babes, has saved many ailing mothers after difficult births and has never turned anyone away seeking help.
Grandmother had swathed Alise snugly in a blanket, folding it around her and tucking in the ends as a mother swaddles a newborn babe.
Knowing which side to duck to can mean the difference between bathing the babe in bechamel sauce and burning your butt on a Bessemer converter.
Together with its train of followers-- Men, matrons, babes, in brabbling multitudes.
But how does he expect babes to be planted with Chatterford removed from its parties?
His features could be clearly discerned on the faces of any number of bastard babes in the area, Eppie informed me.
Refuge, where the Farer girls went to have their babes and leave them for the Wandsmen to rear.
Our writers in the past--the wise men who knew--informed us that you had bushy tails somewhere hidden in your garments, and often dined off a fricassee of newborn babes!
She succeeded only in aborting the babe and breaking her own nose, after which she found that an offset nose has few parts to play on stage, but above a firm cock, especially in the dark, it could do well enough to live.
I understand correctly that this grown man, whom you pulled from coital contact with that woman, has the mind of a babe?
I was born of honest parents in one of the humbler walks of life, my father being a manufacturer of dog-oil and my mother having a small studio in the shadow of the village church, where she disposed of unwelcome babes.
Sometimes he impaled guilty mothers through the breasts and speared their unfortunate babes onto them.
Nature herself probably was dreaming of that first maternity when she evolved the Surinam toad of the isthmian countries to the south of here, that fantastic toad which bears its babes through the skin of its back.
The babes, who had more-or-less taken the huge Hamster Janders for granted, took one look at that massive Canary Clarence.