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A cap or hood with pieces covering the ears.

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

nreasonably 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.

Bijugate.

A male goat. [Colloq.]

, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.

Either of two large antelopes (Boöcercus eurycercus of West Africa, and B. isaaci of East Africa) of a reddish or chestnut-brown color with narrow white stripes on the body. Their flesh is especially esteemed as food.

A sort of cake or sausage, made of the salted roes of the mullet, much used on the coast of the Mediterranean as an incentive to drink.

Pertaining to the shorter diagonal, as of a rhombic prism. Brachydiagonal axis, the shorter lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal.

Branchiostegal.

A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) usually called in America brant. See Brant.

Contentious; quarrelsome. [Obs.] Puller.

A kind of canoe used in Central and South America; also, a kind of boat used in the Southern United States. Bartlett.

See Beggar's ticks.

A chief magistrate of a municipal town in Holland, Flanders, and Germany, corresponding to mayor in England and the United States; a burghmaster.

A kind of helmet. [Written also burganet.] Shak.

A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen. [Written also burgout.]

Past; gone by. "Bygone fooleries." Shak