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Big

Big (big)
a.((?))
Big
[Compar. Bigger; superl. Biggest.] [Perh. from Celtic; cf. W. beichiog, beichiawg, pregnant, with child, fr. baich burden, Arm. beac'h; or cf. OE. bygly, Icel. big
  1. Having largeness of size; of much bulk or magnitude; of great size; large.
    "He's too big to go in there." Shak.
  2. Great with young; pregnant; swelling; ready to give birth or produce; -- often figuratively.

    [Day] big with the fate of Cato and of Rome.
    Addison.

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

    God hath not in heaven a bigger argument.
    Jer. Taylor.

    * Big is often used in self-explaining compounds; as, big-boned; big-sounding; big-named; big- voiced.

    To talk big, to talk loudly, arrogantly, or pretentiously.

    I talked big to them at first.
    De Foe.

    Syn. -- Bulky; large; great; massive; gross.


Big

Alternates
Bigg
Bigg
Big (big)
n.
Big
  1. Barley, especially the hardy four-rowed kind.

    "Bear interchanges in local use, now with barley, now with bigg."
    New English Dict.


Big

Alternates
Bigg
Bigg
Big (big)
v. t.
Big
  1. To build.
    [Scot. *** North of Eng. Dial.] Sir W. Scott.













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