[Bidding Prayer], an exhortation to prayer in some special reference, followed by the Lord's Prayer, in which the congregation joins.
[Biddle, John], a Socinian writer in the time of Charles I. and the Commonwealth; much persecuted for his belief, and was imprisoned, but released by Cromwell; regarded as the founder of English Unitarianism; author of a "Confession of Faith concerning the Holy Trinity" (1615-1662).
[Bidpaï], or Pilpaï, the presumed author of a collection of Hindu fables of ancient date, in extensive circulation over the East, and widely translated.
[Biela's Comet], a comet discovered by Biela, an Austrian officer, in 1826; appears, sometimes unobserved, every six years.
[Bielefeld] (39), a manufacturing town in Westphalia, with a large trade in linen, and the centre of the trade.
[Bielu`ka], with its twin peaks, highest of the Altai Mountains, 11,100 ft.
[Bienne, Lake of], in the Swiss canton of Berne; the Aar is led into it when in flood, so as to prevent inundation below; on the shores of it are remains of lake-dwellings, and an island in it, St. Pierre, the retreat of Rousseau in 1765.
[Bifröst], a bridge in the Norse mythology stretching from heaven to earth, of firm solidity and exquisite workmanship, represented in the rainbow, of which the colours are the reflections of the precious stones.
[Bigelow, Erastus Brigham], American inventor of weaving machines, born in Massachusetts (1814-1879).
[Big-endians], a name given to the Catholics, as Little-endians is the name given to the Protestants, in the imaginary kingdom of Lilliput, of which the former are regarded as heretics by the latter because they break their eggs at the big end.