AZUCE´NA, a gipsy. Manri´co is supposed to be her son, but is in reality the son of Garzia (brother of the conte di Luna).--Verdi, _Il Trovato´rê_ (1853). AZYORU´CA (4 _syl._), queen of the snakes and dragons. She resides in Patala, or the infernal regions.--_Hindû Mythology_. There Azyoruca veiled her awful form In those eternal shadows. There she sat, And as the trembling souls who crowd around The judgment-seat received the doom of fate, Her giant arms, extending from the cloud, Drew them within the darkness. Southey, _Curse of Kehama_, xxiii 15 (1809). BAAL, plu. BAALIM, a general name for all the Syrian gods, as Ash´taroth was for the goddesses. The general version of the legend of Baal is the same as that of Adonis, Thammuz, Osiris, and the Arabian myth of El Khouder. All allegorize the Sun, six months above and six months below the equator. As a title of honor, the word Baal, Bal, Bel, etc., enters into a large number of Phoenician and Carthaginian proper names, as Hanni-bal, Hasdrubal, Bel-shazzar, etc. ... [the] general names Of Baälim and Ashtaroth: those male; These female. Milton, _Paradise Lost_, i. 422 (1665). BAB (_Lady_), a waiting maid on a lady so called, who assumes the airs with the name and address of her mistress. Her fellow-servants and other servants address her as "lady Bab," or "Your ladyship." She is a fine wench, "but by no means particular in keeping her teeth clean." She says she never reads but one "book, which is Shikspur." And she calls Lovel and Freeman, two gentlemen of fortune, "downright hottenpots."--Rev. J. Townley, _High Life Below Stairs_ (1763). BA´BA, chief of the eunuchs in the court of the sultana Gulbey´az.--Byron, _Don Juan_, v. 82, etc. (1820). BABA (_Ali_), who relates the story of the "Forty Thieves" in the _Arabian Nights' Entertainments_. He discovered the thieves' cave while hiding in a tree, and heard the magic word "Ses´amê," at which the door of the cave opened and shut. _Cassim Baba_, brother of Ali Baba, who entered the cave of the forty thieves, but forgot the pass-word, and stood crying "Open Wheat!" "Open Barley!" to the door, which obeyed to no sound but "Open Sesamê!"