A pacifier or binky or piece (North American English), dummy or comforter (British, New Zealand, and Australian English) or soother (Canadian and Irish English), is a rubber, plastic, or silicone nipple given to an infant or other young child to suck upon. In its standard appearance it has a teat, mouth shield, and handle. The mouth shield and/or the handle is large enough to avoid the danger that the child chokes on it or swallows it. History There have always been things which a baby can suck on for comfort. Pacifiers were settling into their modern form around 1900 when the first teat, shield and handle design was patented in the US as a "baby comforter".[LINK: http://www.uspto.gov/main/search.html] Design Patent number D33,212 C.W.Meinecke Sep 18 1900 Rubber had been used in flexible teethers sold as "e

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