{ }, n. [ OE. bif, bigge; akin to Icel. bygg, Dan. byg, Sw. bjugg. ] (Bot.) Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg.” New English Dict. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ }, v. t. [ OE. biggen, fr. Icel. byggja to inhabit, to build, b&unr_;a (neut.) to dwell (active) to make ready. See Boor, and Bound. ] To build. [ Scot. & North of Eng. Dial. ] Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & v. See Big, n. & v. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. To make or become big; to enlarge. [ Obs. or Dial. ] Steele. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., compar. of Big. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., superl. of Big. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. béguin, prob. from the cap worn by the Béguines. Cf. Beguine, Biggon. ] A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head. [ 1913 Webster ]

An old woman's biggin for a nightcap. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A coffeepot with a strainer or perforated metallic vessel for holding the ground coffee, through which boiling water is poured; -- so called from Mr. Biggin, the inventor. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ OE. bigging. See Big, Bigg, v. t. ] A building. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. béguin and OF. beguinet, dim of béguin. See Biggin a cap. ] A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. characterized by pomposity of manner. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bridge. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rigged like a catboat. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a small tropical flea (Tunga penetrans, formerly Pulex penetrans); same as chigoe. [ Also spelled chigre. ]
Syn. -- chigoe, chigoe flea, Tunga penetrans. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a larval mite of the family Trombiculidae that sucks the blood of vertebrates including human beings, causing intense irritation, and serving to transmit several infectious diseases.
Syn. -- harvest mite, jigger, redbug. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. an erect perennial of eastern and southern U. S. (Asclepias tuberosa) having showy orange flowers.
Syn. -- butterfly weed, orange milkweed, pleurisy root, tuber root, Indian paintbrush, Asclepias tuberosa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Capable of being dug. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, digs. [ 1913 Webster ]

Digger wasp (Zool.), any one of the fossorial Hymenoptera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. Digger. (Ethnol.) A degraded tribe of California Indians; -- so called from their practice of digging roots for food. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or the place of digging or excavating.
Syn. -- excavation, dig. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. Places where ore is dug; especially, certain localities in California, Australia, and elsewhere, at which gold is obtained. [ Recent ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. Region; locality. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion).
Syn. -- ransacking, rummage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. temporary living quarters.
Syn. -- digs, domiciliation, lodgings, pad. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The kiang, a wild horse or wild ass of Tibet (Asinus hemionus). [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The name is sometimes applied also to the koulan or onager. See Koulan.

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] A juggler's trick; conjuring. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The devil is the author of wicked figgum. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. [ Icel. Frigg. See Friday. ] (Scand. Myth.) The wife of Odin and mother of the gods; the supreme goddess; the Juno of the Valhalla. Cf. Freya. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Gigot. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cut the slaves to giggets. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Giggled p. pr. & vb. n. Giggling ] [ Akin to gaggle: cf. OD. ghichelen, G. kichern. ] To laugh with short catches of the breath or voice; to laugh in a light, affected, or silly manner; to titter with childish levity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Giggling and laughing with all their might
At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of laugh, with short catches of the voice or breath; a light, silly laugh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who giggles or titters. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Prone to giggling. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Gigot. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. [ F., fr. OF. gigue fiddle; -- on account of the resemblance in shape. See Jig, n. ] 1. A leg of mutton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small piece of flesh; a slice. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The rest in giggots cut, they spit. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Gige. ] The act of fastending the gige or leather strap to the shield. [ Obs. ] “Gigging of shields.” Chaucer.

n. 1. A digger of graves. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) See Burying beetle, under Bury, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Higgled p. pr. & vb. n. Higgling ] [ Cf. Haggle, or Huckster. ] 1. To hawk or peddle provisions. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To chaffer; to stickle for small advantages in buying and selling; to haggle. [ 1913 Webster ]

A person accustomed to higgle about taps. Jeffry. [ 1913 Webster ]

To truck and higgle for a private good. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In confusion; topsy-turvy. [ Colloq. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who higgles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Wearing a periwig.

n. [ A corrupt. of chigre. ] 1. (Zool.) A species of flea (Tunga penetrans, or Sarcopsylla penetrans, or Pulex penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin; called also jigger flea. See Chigoe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Any one of several species of small red mites (esp. Tetranychus irritans and Tetranychus Americanus) of the family Trombiculidae, which, in the larval or leptus stage, burrow beneath the skin of man and various animals, causing great annoyance. Also called chigger. [ Southern U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ See Jig, n. & v. ] 1. One who, or that which, jigs; specifically, a miner who sorts or cleans ore by the process of jigging; also, the sieve used in jigging. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Pottery) (a) A horizontal table carrying a revolving mold, on which earthen vessels are shaped by rapid motion; a potter's wheel. (b) A template or tool by which vessels are shaped on a potter's wheel. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) (a) A light tackle, consisting of a double and single block and the fall, used for various purposes, as to increase the purchase on a topsail sheet in hauling it home; the watch tackle. Totten. (b) A small fishing vessel, rigged like a yawl. [ New Eng. ] (c) A supplementary sail. See Dandy, n., 2 (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A pendulum rolling machine for slicking or graining leather; same as Jack, 4 (i). [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A small glass or measuring vessel holding 11/2 ounces (45 ml), used mostly for measuring liquor or drinking whiskey; also, the quantity of liquid held in a jigger. [ PJC ]

6. A thingamajig. [ Colloq. ] [ PJC ]

Jigger mast. (Naut.) (a) The after mast of a four-masted vessel. (b) The small mast set at the stern of a yawl-rigged boat. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. Jiggle. ] To move, send, or drive with a jerk; to jerk; also, to drive or send over with a jerk, as a golf ball.

He could jigger the ball o'er a steeple tall as most men would jigger a cop. Harper's Mag. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of a person in some way.
Syn. -- trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, skulduggery, skullduggery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Mining) The act or using a jig; the act of separating ore with a jigger, or wire-bottomed sieve, which is moved up and down in water. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jigging machine. (a) (Mining) A machine for separating ore by the process of jigging. (b) (Metal Working) A machine with a rotary milling cutter and a template by which the action of the cutter is guided or limited; -- used for forming the profile of an irregularly shaped piece; a profiling machine. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Resembling, or suitable for, a jig, or lively movement. Tatler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Playful; frisky. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

She is never sad, and yet not jiggish. Habington. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Freq. of jig. ] To wriggle or frisk about; to move awkwardly; to shake up and down. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Naut.) Rigged for temporary service; done or made using whatever materials are available; makeshift; as, the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear. See Jury, a.
Syn. -- improvised, makeshift. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. A small genus of South African shrubs or small trees.
Syn. -- genus Kiggelaria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. rigged with a triangular (lateen sail).
Syn. -- lateen. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. i. To lie or recline. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. See Ledger, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime. L. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. hnöggr niggardly, stingy + -ard; cf. Sw. njugg, AS. hneáw. ] A person meanly stingy and covetous; one who spends grudgingly; a stingy, parsimonious fellow; a miser. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A penurious niggard of his wealth. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Be niggards of advice on no pretense. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]