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.