Baboo – Bakel
Baboo
or BABU, a Hindu title of respect equivalent to sir or master, usually given to wealthy and educated native gentlemen, especially of the mercantile class. In its modern use it is applied chiefly to native clerks able to write English.
Bachelor's Buttons
the double flowering buttercup (ranunculus acris), with white or yellow blossoms, common in gardens.
BACHIAN (bäch'an), or BATJAN, one of the Molucca Islands, immediately S. of the equator, S. W. of Gilolo; area, 914 square miles. Pop. about 15,000. It is ruled by a native Sultan under the Dutch.
Bacillaria
a genus of microscopic algæ belonging to the class diatomacex, the siliceous remains of which abound in Cretaceous, Tertiary, and more recent geological deposits.
Bacillus
a name given to certain filiform bacteria present in the blood and tissues in malignant pustule, typhus, tuberculosis, and many other diseases.
See BACTERIA.
Back River
a name for the Great Fish River of northern Canada, discovered by Capt. Back in 1834 and by him traced down to its mouth under great difficulties.
Bacon
JOSEPHINE DODGE DAS- KAM, American authoress, born in Stamford, Conn., Feb. 17, 1876. She graduated from Smith College in 1898 at the head of her class. She has been a prolific writer of books and magazine articles, and is especially happy in her studies of juvenile and adolescent types.
Bacup
a municipal borough of England, in Lancashire, 20 miles N. of Manchester. The chief manufacturing establishments are connected with cotton and woolen spinning and weaving; there are also iron works, Turkey-red dyeing works, and in the neighborhood numerous coal pits and immense stone quarries. Pop. about 22,500.
Badakshan
a province of Afghanistan. It has the Oxus on the N. and the Hindu Kush on the S.; and has lofty mountains and fertile valleys; the chief town is Faizabad. The inhabitants profess Mohammedanism. Pop. about 100,000.
Badge
a distinctive device, emblem, mark, honorary decoration, or special cognizance, used originally to identify a knight or distinguish his followers.
Bagehot
WALTER (bāj'ot), an English writer on political economy and government, born in Langport, Somersetshire, Feb. 3, 1826; was graduated at University College, London, and admitted to the bar; but never entered practice. His principal works are "The English Constitution"; "Physics and Politics"; and "Lombard Street: a De-
Baize
a sort of coarse woolen fabric with a rough nap, now generally used for linings, and mostly green or red in color.
BAJA (bä'yä), an Italian seaport town, W. of Naples. It is the ancient Balae.
Bakel
a town with a strong fort, in the E. of the French colony of Senegal, on the left bank of the Senegal river.
Pop. about 2,000.