Often a velvet cap was worn outside the biggin or lace cap.

I have seen it stated that the biggin was a night-cap.

By Shakespere's day biggin had become wholly a term for a child's cap.

The French coffee biggin is valuable for this.

As he whose brow with homely biggin bound

But to be reduced from helmet and steel coat to biggin and gown in a night brawl-

This was altered in spelling to biggin, and for a time a nun's plain linen cap was thus called.

I bet he's a biggin.

Oswald's wife then put before him a large pie, and some wheaten bread, with a biggin of good beer.

He presently brought her a biggin of fine white sand, which brought the shore of Surrey to my mind's eye.

Your news has put me in a fever, continued Edward, taking up the biggin and drinking a large draught of beer.

To make coffee without boiling, you must have a biggin, the best sort of which is what in France is called a Grecque.

At Marton the father worked for a Mr. Mewburn, living in a small cottage built of mud, called in the district a clay biggin.

Hardly had we got into the tiny thatched house-oncea mere "clay biggin"-whereBurns was born, than the four appeared on the scene.

He nodded to Biggin and then acknowledged Rutledge just behind the sergeant.

Sergeant Biggin asks if you can come to the clinic at once?