2. Inarticulate speech; constant or confused murmur.

The babble of our young children.

Darwin.

The babble of the stream.

Tennyson.

Bab"ble*ment (&?;), n. Babble. Hawthorne.

Bab"bler (&?;), n. 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets.

Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust.

L'Estrange.

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