Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Biggin

Biggin ({not transcribed}) , noun

[French béguin, prob. from the cap worn by the Béguines. Compare Beguine, Biggon.]

A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.
An old woman's biggin for a nightcap. — Massinger

Biggin , 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.

Biggin , noun

[Old English bigging. See Big, Bigg, transitive verb]

A building. [Obsolete]

Also: Bigging