BIDDY [BELLAIR] (Miss), “Miss in her teens,” in love with captain Loveit.  She was promised in marriage by her aunt and guardian to an elderly man whom she detested; and during the absence of captain Loveit in the Flanders war, she coquetted with Mr. Fribble and captain Flash.  On the return of her “Strephon,” she set Fribble and Flash together by the ears; and while they stood menacing each other, but afraid to fight, captain Loveit entered and sent them both to the right-about.—­D.  Garrick, Miss in Her Teens (1753).

BIDEFORD POSTMAN (The), Edward Capern, a poet, at one time a letter-carrier in Bideford (3 syl).

BIDE-THE-BENT (Mr. Peter), minister of Wolf’s Hope village.—­Sir W. Scott, Bride of Lammermoor (time, William III.).

BID’MORE (Lord), patron of the Rev Josiah Cargill, minister of St. Ronan’s.

The Hon. Augustus Bidmore, son of lord Bidmore, and pupil of the Rev. Josiah Cargill.

Miss Augusta Bidmore, daughter of lord

Bidmore, beloved by the Rev. Josiah Cargill—­Sir W. Scott, St.
Ronan’s Well (time, George III.).

BIE’DERMAN (Arnold), alias count Arnold of Geierstein [Gi’.er.stine], landamman of Unterwalden.  Anne of Geierstein, his brother’s daughter, is under his charge.

Bertha Biederman, Arnold’s late wife.

Ru’diger Biederman, Arnold Biederman’s son.

Ernest Biederman, brother of Rudiger.

Sigismund Biederman, nicknamed “The Simple,” another brother.

Ulrick Biedermen, youngest of the four brothers.—­Sir W. Scott, Anne of Geierstein (time, Edward IV.).

BIG-EN’DIANS (The), a hypothetical religious party of Lilliput, who made it a matter of “faith” to break their eggs at the “big end.”  Those who broke them at the other end were considered heretics, and called Little-endians.—­Dean Swift, Gulliver’s Travels (1726).

BIG’LOW (Hosea), the feigned author of The Biglow Papers (1848), really written by Professor James Russell Lowell of Boston, Mass. (1819-1891).

BIG’OT (De), seneschal of prince John.—­Sir W. Scott, Ivanhoe (time, Richard I.).

Big’ot, in C. Lamb’s Essays, is John Fenwick, editor of the Albion newspaper.

BIL’DAI (2 syl.), a seraph and the tutelar guardian of Matthew the apostle, the son of wealthy parents and brought up in great luxury.—­Klopstock, The Messiah, iii. (1748).

BILLINGS (Josh).  A.W.  Shaw so signs His Book of Sayings (1866).

Ef a man hezn’t a well-balanced mind I du admire to see him part his hair in the middle.

Ef thar iz wun sayin’ trewer than anuther it is that the devil iz allwaies ready fur kumpany.

Josh Billings’s Alminax (1870).