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 |