biggin 1
/big"in/ , n. Archaic.
1. a close-fitting cap worn esp. by children in the 16th and 17th centuries.
2. a soft cap worn while sleeping; nightcap.
[ 1520-30; beguin kind of hood or cap, orig. one worn by a BEGUINE ]
biggin 2
/big"in/ , n.
a coffeepot, usually silver, having a separate container in which the coffee is immersed while being boiled.
[ after Biggin, the name of its early 19th-century inventor ]