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† ˈbigging, vbl. n. dial.
[f. big v. + -ing1.]
†1. The fact of dwelling; sojourn, stay.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 718 Long bigging is here noȝt god.
b. Dwelling-place, habitation, home. Obs.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 3163 Ðo was non biging of al egipte lichles. c1400Epiph. (Turnb. 1843) 156 Bryng hus all to that bygyng bryghth. c1425Emare 709 When he come to his byggynge, He welcomed fayr that lady yynge.
2. The action of building. north. dial.
c1440Promp. Parv. 35 Byggynge, or beeldynge, edificatio, structura. 1527Lanc. & Chesh. Wills (1854) 34 Sufficiant reparations and bydgynges of howses. c1550Sir J. Balfour Practicks (1754) 34 For the bigging, mending and reparatioun of paroche kirkis. 1816Scott Antiq. iv, ‘Prætorian here, Prætorian there, I mind the bigging o't.’
3. concr. A building, an edifice; also, an out-building as distinguished from a house. north. dial.
a1300Cursor M. 1774 Þe bigginnes fel bath hey and lau. c1400Destr. Troy xxxv. 13452 Betwene the biggyng on þe buerne & þe burgh riche. c1440Promp. Parv. 35 Byggynge..edificium. 1533Bellenden Livy v. (1822) 432 Magnificent housis and biggingis. 1681Blount Glossogr., Biggin, or Bigging in the northern parts is used for a fair house or Gentlemans Seat. 1790Burns Capt. Grose iii, By some auld houlet-haunted biggin' Or kirk deserted by its riggin'. 1849C. Brontë Shirley xxx. 442 About to fall asleep wi' the length of the sermon and the heat of the biggin'. 1876Grant Burgh Sch. Scot. i. i. 25 Certain houses, crofts, biggings, lands and gardens. |