<span class="searchmatch">bignesse</span> (uncountable) Obsolete spelling of bigness. 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter III.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […]...
Middle English <span class="searchmatch">bignesse</span> (“size”), equivalent to big + -ness. (UK, US) IPA(key): /ˈbɪɡnəs/ bigness (countable and uncountable, plural <span class="searchmatch">bignesses</span>) (now rare)...
upon another like the picture of the Sew-Bread in the old Bibles. They are about the <span class="searchmatch">bignesse</span> of 2d cakes, and n'ly all the visitants that day take one....
vvith Vermillion, their noſes and eares hung vvith Ievvels of price and <span class="searchmatch">bigneſſe</span>, and about their faces (tied to the chin) a rope of orient pearle of exceeding...
ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the <span class="searchmatch">bigneſſe</span> of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull...
ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the <span class="searchmatch">bigneſſe</span> of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull...
ſtroak of a plant, may behold it in the Originall of Duckvveed, at the <span class="searchmatch">bigneſſe</span> of a pins point, from convenient vvater in glaſſes, vvherein a vvatchfull...
said Voyage: The seventh of May following, we first saw many Birds in <span class="searchmatch">bignesse</span> of Cliffe Pidgeons, and after divers other as Pettrels, Cootes, Hagbuts...
→OCLC: Two vasas of berill , 2 of achate , whereof one is esteemed for its <span class="searchmatch">bignesse</span> , colour , and carving imboss'd 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon]...