Part 1110

<hw><hw>Bi*fur"cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Bi*fur"ca*ted</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Pref. <ets>bi-</ets> + <ets>furcate</ets>.]</ety> <def>Two-pronged; forked.</def>

<h1>Bifurcate</h1> <Xpage=144>

<hw>Bi*fur"cate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To divide into two branches.</def>

<h1>Bifurcation</h1> <Xpage=144>

<hw>Bi`fur*ca"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>bifurcation</ets>.]</ety> <def>A forking, or division into two branches.</def>

<h1>Bifurcous</h1> <Xpage=144>

<hw>Bi*fur"cous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>bifurcus</ets>; <ets>bis</ets> twice + <ets>furca</ets> fork.]</ety> <def>See <er>Bifurcate</er>, <tt>a.</tt></def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Coles.</i>

<h1>Big</h1> <Xpage=144>

<hw>Big</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>compar.</tt> <er>Bigger</er>; <tt>superl.</tt> <er>Biggest</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Perh. from Celtic; cf. W. <ets>beichiog</ets>, <ets>beichiawg</ets>, pregnant, with child, fr. <ets>baich</ets> burden, Arm. <ets>beac'h</ets>; or cf. OE. <ets>bygly</ets>, Icel. <ets>biggiligr</ets>, (properly) habitable; (then) magnigicent, excellent, fr. OE. <ets>biggen</ets>, Icel. <ets>byggja</ets>, to dwell, build, akin to E. <ets>be</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.</def> "He's too <i>big</i> to go in there."

<i> Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.</def>

<blockquote> <b>big</b> with the fate of Cato and of Rome. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Having greatness, fullness, importance, inflation, distention, etc., whether in a good or a bad sense; <as>as, a <ex>big</ex> heart; a <ex>big</ex> voice; <ex>big</ex> looks; to look <ex>big</ex></as>. As applied to looks, it indicates haughtiness or pride.</def>

<blockquote>God hath not in heaven a <b>bigger</b> argument. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Big</i> is often used in self-explaining compounds; as, <i>big-</i>boned; <i>big-</i>sounding; <i>big-</i>named; <i>big-</i>voiced.</note>

<cs><col>To talk big</col>, <cd>to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>I <b>talked big</b> to them at first. <i>De Foe.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Bulky; large; great; massive; gross.</syn>

<h1>Big, Bigg</h1> <Xpage=144>

<hw><hw>Big</hw>, <hw>Bigg</hw><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>bif</ets>, <ets>bigge</ets>; akin to Icel. <ets>bygg</ets>, Dan. <ets>byg</ets>, Sw. <ets>bjugg</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.</def>

<blockquote>"Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with <b>bigg</b>." <i>New English Dict.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Big, Bigg</h1> <Xpage=144>

<hw><hw>Big</hw>, <hw>Bigg</hw><hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>biggen</ets>, fr. Icel. <ets>byggja</ets> to inhabit, to build, <ets>b<?/a</ets> (neut.) to dwell (active) to make ready. See <er>Boor</er>, and <er>Bound</er>.]</ety> <def>To build.</def> <mark>[Scot. & North of Eng. Dial.]</mark>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>

<h1>Biga</h1> <Xpage=144>

<hw>Bi"ga</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L.]</ety> <fld>(Antiq.)</fld> <def>A two-horse chariot.</def>

<h1>Bigam</h1> <Xpage=144>