noun. A kind of coffee-pot containing a strainer for the infusion of the coffee, without allowing the grounds to mix with the infusion.

noun. A small wooden vessel; a can.

noun. . A child's cap.

noun. 2. A nightcap.

noun. . In England, the coif of a serjeant at law.

noun. 4. A head-dress worn in the later middle ages, and throughout the seventeenth century, by both men and women. That worn by women was broad at the top, with projecting corners, like ears.

noun. A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.

noun. A building.

noun. 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.

noun. A child's cap; (figuratively) childhood.

noun. An official's hood or coif.

noun. Coffee pot that has separate areas for heating the coffee and water.

noun. A building; a bigging.

noun. a child's tight-fitting cap; often ties under the chin

"Mr. Carlyle said it was his habit to drink five cups of tea. He ran off into table-talk about tea and coffee, told us that he had found in Lord Russell's 'Memoirs of Moore,' which he called a rubbishy book, the origin of the word biggin; it comes from one Biggin, a tinner, who first made the vessel and was knighted afterwards."

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