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A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.

A measure of land in India, varying from a third of an acre to an acre.

The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis or Caprovis montana).

A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

Having two glands, as a plant.

In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently. He brawleth bigly. Robynson (More's Utopia. )

The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.

A large genus of American, mostly tropical, climbing shrubs, having compound leaves and showy somewhat tubular flowers. B. capreolata is the cross vine of the Southern United States. The trumpet creeper was formerly considered to be of this genus.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of which the trumpet flower is an example.

inately and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion. To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe. Macaulay.

unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others. "Bigoted to strife." Byron.

In the manner of a bigot.

The state of mind of a bigot; obstinate and unreasoning attachment of one's own belief and opinions, with narrow-minded intolerance of beliefs opposed to them.

A person of consequence; as, the bigwigs of society. [Jocose] In our youth we have heard him spoken of by the bigwigs with extreme condescension. Dickens.

A lady's waiting-maid. Pepys. Her abigail reported that Mrs. Gutheridge had a set of night curls for sleeping in. Leslie.

A sect of reformers opposed to the church of Rome in the 12th centuries.

Of or pertaining to the Albigenses.

Of two kinds. (Bot.)

An entertainment at which a medley of dishes is set on at the same time.

The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, w…