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Definition of Baubees
1. baubee [n] - See also: baubee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Baubees
Literary usage of Baubees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Beloochistan and Sinde: Accompanied by a Geographical and by Sir Henry Pottinger (1816)
"baubees WELL INFORMED IN COMPARISON WITH OTHERS. WANT OF WORLDLY KNOWLEDGE.
ILLUSTRATED BY TWO ANECDOTES. ... APPEARANCE, DRESS, AND MANNERS OF THE baubees. ..."
2. Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle (1881)
"The little lad and lass were both on his knee in th> morning bofore breakfast,
and the baubees and the other doubtful forms of bribery and corruption from ..."
3. American Observer Medical Monthly (1879)
"Mistakes of the eye not mentioned beyond the mists—others beyond the redeeming
capacity of all ' baubees.' On the whole, a healthy Hoosier man, ..."
4. Arithmetical Questions: On a New Plan: Intended to Answer the Double Purpose by William Butler (1811)
"149, 760000 baubees paid yearly by the 12 manufacturers ; 416000 parcels. TROY W
EI GH T. No. 392. In 27 'ounces Troy how many grains-? Anf. i 2960 grains. ..."
5. The Lancet (1842)
"... and that dignity with debt is but a sorry honour; and when babies come in
faster than baubees, the father gets into a deplorable condition. ..."
6. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"Marry, sir, because I have heard of a fellow would oner to bay a hundred-pound [no
wager, that was not worth five baubees : * and in this kind you might ..."
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