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▪ I. biggin1|ˈbɪgɪn|
Also 6 begin, byggen, 7 biggon, -ging, 6–9 biggen.
[a. F. béguin child's cap. See Beguine, note.]
1. A child's cap.
1530Palsgr. 198/1 Byggen for a chyldes heed, beguyne. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 577/2. 1639 Massinger Unnat. Combat iv. ii, Would you have me Transform my hat to double clouts and biggings? 1755Connoisseur No. 80 (1774) III. 71 Such a store of clouts, caps..biggens..as would set up a Lying-in Hospital. 1819Scott Ivanhoe xxviii, My brain has been topsy-turvy..ever since the biggin was bound first round my head.
b. Taken as the sign of infancy.
1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. iii. vi, [You have] beene a courtier from the biggen, to the night-cap. 1638Quarles Hieroglyph. iii. 215 How many dangers meet Poor man between the biggin and the winding sheet.
2. A cap or hood for the head, a night-cap; also the coif of a Serjeant-at-law.
1562W. Bullein Bk. Simples 10 a, Put into a Forhead clothe or Biggen. 1589Pappe w. Hatchet B ij b, [His] head is swolne so big, that he had neede send to the cooper to make him a biggin. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, iv. v. 27 Hee whose Brow (with homely Biggen bound) Snores out the Watch of Night. 1610Markham Masterp. ii. xvii. 245 Make the horse a biggen of canuase to close in the soare. 1639City-Match iv. vii. in Hazl. Dodsley XIII. 288 Ha' made him barrister, And rais'd him to his satin cap and biggon. 1828Scott F.M. Perth xvii, Reduced..to biggen and gown, in a night brawl.
†3. The amnion enveloping the fœtus. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Agneliere..called by some Midwiues, the Coyfe, or Biggin of the child; by others, the childs shirt.
▪ II. biggin2
[See quot.]
A kind of coffee-pot containing a strainer for the infusion of the coffee, without allowing the grounds to mix with the infusion.
1803Gents. Mag. LXXIII. 1094 Mr. Biggin some years ago invented a new sort of coffee pot which has been ever since extensively sold under the name of coffee biggins. 1817Specif. of Ogle's Patent No. 4173, for Improvements in tea and coffee pots or biggins.—‘The tea or coffee being put into the canister, placed within the pot or biggin, the boiling water is then poured upon it, and the extract is filtered through the strainer into the exterior pot or biggin.’ a1803Moore in Mem. & Corr. (1853) I. 97, I had yesterday a long visit from Mr. Biggin..By the bye it is from him the coffee biggins take their name. |