| aby | suffer for, pay for, atone for |
| abysm | abyss, chasm, gulf |
| Acheron | [pron: 'akeron] Underworld abyss and river, which souls of the dead must cross |
| aglet-baby | [unclear meaning] small ornamental figure forming the tag of a lace |
| Ariadne | [ari'adnee] daughter of Minos who helped Theseus find his way through the labyrinth, and then fled with him; Theseus abandoned her while she slept at Naxos |
| baby | doll |
| barn | child, baby |
| Bel | Babylonian god, in the Bible discredited by Daniel |
| child | baby girl |
| Daedalus | [pron: 'dedalus] legendary Athenian inventor who made the labyrinth for King Minos in Crete; escaped to Sicily with wings made for himsef and his son Icarus |
| Daniel | in the Bible, influential Babylonian administrator and visionary |
| gulf | abyss, chasm, pit |
| maze | chance wandering about, labyrinthine business |
| Minos | ['minos] king of Crete, who imprisoned Daedalus and his son Icarus for helping Theseus escape from his labyrinth |
| Minotaur | ['minotawr] son of Pasiphae and a bull from the sea, half bull and half human; kept in Minos' labyrinth; killed by Theseus |
| Nabuchadnezzar | [pron: nabookad'nezer] Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, 6th-c BC |
| Pabylon | Welsh pronunciation of 'Babylon' |
| rabbit-sucker | sucking rabbit, baby rabbit |
| swathing-clothes | swaddling clothes, cloths for wrapping round a new-born baby |
| wanton | spoilt child, pampered baby, weakling |
| Whore of Babylon | in the Bible, a prostitute figure, taken as a symbol of degenerate Rome, and thus of Roman Catholicism |