It could only be a herd's cottage, where I might hope for a peat fire, a bicker of brose, and, at the worst, a couch of dry bracken.

The event was a godsend to our trade, for with Scotland in a bicker with Covenants and dragoonings, and new taxes threatened with each new Parliament, a merchant's credit was apt to be a brittle thing.

There has long been a sort of bicker between us, and they thought they had got a fine chance of ending it.

Auld Reikiel thou'rt the canty hole, A bield for mony a caldrife soul, What snugly at thine ingle loll, Baith warm and couth, While round they gar the bicker roll To weet their mouth.

Bicker, bowl.

You won't be a sticker for trifles, and bicker And quarrel for nothing at all; You'll grow to be kinder, more thoughtful and blinder To faults which are petty and small.

Now a family row is a private affair, And guests, I am certain, should never be there; I have freely maintained that a man and his wife Cannot always agree on their journey through life, But they ought not to bicker and wrangle and shout And show off their rage when their friends are about; It takes all the joy from a party, I vow, When some couple starts up a family row.

I. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

V. be discordant &c adj.; disagree, come amiss &c 24; clash, jar, jostle, pull different ways, conflict, have no measures with, misunderstand one another; live like cat and dog; differ; dissent &c 489; have a bone to pick, have a crow to pluck with. fall out, quarrel, dispute; litigate; controvert &c (deny) 536; squabble, wrangle, jangle, brangle^, bicker, nag; spar &c (contend) 720;

I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down a valley.

BICKER, to move quickly and unsteadily, like flame or water.

Lieutenants Barnum and Bicker and Mr. Johnston came to visit me. 24th.

The party consisted of several officers and ladies from the fort, Captain Thompson and lady, Lieutenant Bicker and lady and sister, the Miss Johnstons and Lieutenants Smith and Folger.

I am officially called on, by the authority of General Gaines, as a witness in the case of Lieutenant Walter Bicker, U.S.A., who is summoned to a court martial in Fort Brady.

For, call it lovers' quarrels, yet I know Tho' men may bicker with the things they love, They would not make them laughable in all eyes, Not while they loved them; and your wretched dress, A wretched insult on you, dumbly speaks Your story, that this man loves you no more.

But while the sun yet beat a dewy blade, The sound of many a heavily-galloping hoof Smote on her ear, and turning round she saw Dust, and the points of lances bicker in it.

I. Bicker staff, The Hypocrite (1768).

DARNLEY, the amant of Charlotte [Lambert], in The Hypocrite, by Isaac Bicker-staff.

SEE Bicker, Robert O. BICKEL, ROBERT O. Informat.

SEE Bicker, Robert O. BICKEL, ROBERT O. Informat.

What is rather the duty of all who love what is noble and beautiful is not to carp and bicker over faulty conditions, but to realise their aims and hopes, to labour abundantly and patiently, to speak and feel sincerely, to encourage rather than to condemn, Serviendum lietandum says the brave motto.

But you fan up every little bicker into a lawsuitdon't I know?

2. I come from haunts of coot and hern, I make a sudden sally, And sparkle out among the fern, To bicker down the valley.

"I chatter in the servants' hall, I make a sudden sally, And with the parlourmaid I brawl Or bicker with the valet.

It was the briskest kind of a bicker that ensued for a little while there on the bosky, broomy hill-side in the evening light.