The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

lacking a belt.

A cetacean allied to the dolphins.

To bespatter, as with mud.

A small building, or a part of a building, more or less open, constructed in a place commanding a fine prospect.

A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Brazil.

To make mad.

To mangle; to tear asunder.

To mask; to conceal.

To master thoroughly.

To maul or beat severely; to bruise.

To bewilder.

To make mean; to lower.

To meet.

To mete.

To mingle; to mix.

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

To envelop in mist.

To express deep grief for by moaning; to express sorrow for; to lament; to bewail; to pity or sympathize with.

One who bemoans.

To mock; to ridicule.

To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.

The sign /; the same as B flat.

To make monstrous or like a monster.

To mourn over.

To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.

To cover as with a muffler; to wrap up.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor.

An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.

A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).

To promise; to name.

To sit on a seat of justice.

One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.

A band.

Capable of being bent.

to reproduce by the Benday method.

One who, or that which, bends.

The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.

A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

Diagonally.

Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.

A prayer; boon.

See Neaped.

In a lower place; underneath.

An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !.

A married man, or a man newly married.

Having mild and salubrious qualities.

One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.

The act of blessing.

A book of benedictions.

A collected series of benedictions.

Tending to bless.

Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer.

The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.

Blessed.

The act of conferring a benefit.

One who confers a benefit or benefits.

A woman who confers a benefit.

Favorable; beneficent.

To endow with a benefice.

Having no benefice.

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

Relating to beneficence.

In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.

In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.

The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.

A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.

To reduce (ores).

Beneficent.

To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.

To deprive (of), or take away (from).

Promised; vowed.

To catch in a net; to insnare.

The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.

Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.

Kind; benevolent.

A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.

Of or pertaining to Bengal. A native or natives of Bengal.

Of or pertaining to the Bengali language; as, Bengali poetry.

The language spoken in Bengal.

One of the capital cities of Libya.

A Bengal light.

To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.

The condition of being benighted.

Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.

Benignant quality; kindliness.

Kind; gracious; favorable.

The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness.

In a benign manner.

To take away.

a native or inhabitant of Benin.

Blessing; beatitude; benediction.

A holy-water stoup.

A kind of upper coat for men.

A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin.

The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and Sesamum indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil or sesame oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.

The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.

an order of fossil gymnospermous plans of the Carboniferous.

the type genus of the Bennettitales.

an East Indian annual erect herb (Sesamum indicum); the source of sesame seed or benniseed and sesame oil. Same as benne

a slang name for Benzedrine, a trademark for one brand of amphetamine; -- also used generically for any brand of amphetamine.

the small oval seed of the sesame plant.

same as benne or benni.

See Banshee.

A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.

Very angry; very disturbed.

grass for pastures and lawns esp bowling and putting greens.

Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.

Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.

That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.

One who believes in Benthamism.

of, pertaining to, or occurring at the bottom of a body of water, especially referring to the ocean depths.

The bottom of the sea, esp. of the deep oceans; the fauna and flora of the sea bottom; -- opposed to plankton.

An absorbent aluminum silicate clay formed from volcanic ash.

Of or pertaining to bentonite.

Abounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.

To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.