Bight
(Bight) n. [OE. bi&yoght a bending; cf. Sw. & Dan. bugt bend, bay; fr. AS. byht, fr. bugan.
&radic88. Cf. Bout, Bought a bend, and see Bow, v.]
1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
2. (Geog.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
3. (Naut.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or
coil not including the ends; a loop.
Biglandular
(Bi*glan"du*lar) a. [Pref. bi- + glandular.] Having two glands, as a plant.
Bigly
(Big"ly) adv. [From Big, a.] In a tumid, swelling, blustering manner; haughtily; violently.
He brawleth bigly.
Robynson (More's Utopia. )
Bigness
(Big"ness), n. The state or quality of being big; largeness; size; bulk.
Bignonia
(Big*no"ni*a) n. [Named from the Abbé Bignon.] (Bot.) 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.
Bignoniaceous
(Big*no`ni*a"ceous) a. (Bot.) Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants of
which the trumpet flower is an example.
Bigot
(Big"ot) n. [F. bigot a bigot or hypocrite, a name once given to the Normans in France. Of unknown
origin; possibly akin to Sp. bigote a whisker; hombre de bigote a man of spirit and vigor; cf. It. s-bigottire
to terrify, to appall. Wedgwood and others maintain that bigot is from the same source as Beguine,
Beghard.]
1. A hypocrite; esp., a superstitious hypocrite. [Obs.]
2. A person who regards his own faith and views in matters of religion as unquestionably right, and any
belief or opinion opposed to or differing from them as unreasonable or wicked. In an extended sense, a
person who is intolerant of opinions which conflict with his own, as in politics or morals; one obstinately
and blindly devoted to his own church, party, belief, or opinion.
To doubt, where bigots had been content to wonder and believe.
Macaulay.
Bigot
(Big"ot), a. Bigoted. [Obs.]
In a country more bigot than ours.
Dryden.
Bigoted
(Big"ot*ed), a. Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably
devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others. "Bigoted to strife." Byron.
Syn. — Prejudiced; intolerant; narrow-minded.
Bigotedly
(Big"ot*ed*ly), adv. In the manner of a bigot.
Bigotry
(Big"ot*ry) n. [Cf. F. bigoterie.]
1. 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.
2. The practice or tenets of a bigot.
