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.

Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.

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.

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.

Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind.

Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.

A compound radical, C6H5.CH=, of the aromatic series, related to benzyl and benzoyl; -- used adjectively or in combination.

A transparent crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.NH2, obtained by the action of ammonia upon chloride of benzoyl, as also by several other reactions with benzoyl compounds.

A volatile, very inflammable liquid, C6H6, contained in the naphtha produced by the destructive distillation of coal, from which it is separated by fractional distillation. The name is sometimes applied also to the impure commercial product or benzole, and also, but rarely, to a similar mixed product of petroleum.

similar to benzene in structure or linkage; having an aromatic ring system.

A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.

A liquid consisting mainly of the lighter and more volatile hydrocarbons of petroleum or kerosene oil, used as a solvent and for cleansing soiled fabrics; -- called also petroleum spirit, petroleum benzine. Varieties or similar products are gasoline, naphtha, rhigolene, ligroin, etc.

A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.

a chemical substance obtainable as a white crystalline ester (H2N.C6H4.CO.O.C2H5) used as a local anesthetic. Chemically, it is 4-aminobenzoic acid ethyl ester.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin.

A resinous substance, dry and brittle, obtained from the Styrax benzoin, a tree of Sumatra, Java, etc., having a fragrant odor, and slightly aromatic taste. It is used in the preparation of benzoic acid, in medicine, and as a perfume.

Containing or impregnated with benzoin; as, benzoinated lard.

An impure benzene, used in the arts as a solvent, and for various other purposes. See Benzene.

Same as Benzole. Same as Amarine.

A white crystalline powder used as an intestinal antiseptic; beta-naphthol benzoate.

Guaiacol benzoate, used as an intestinal antiseptic and as a substitute for creosote in phthisis. It is a colorless crystalline pewder.

A compound radical, C6H5.CO-; the base of benzoic acid, of the oil of bitter almonds, and of an extensive series of compounds.

A compound radical, C6H5.CH2, related to toluene and benzoic acid; -- commonly used adjectively.

containing a benzyl group.

To paint; to cover or color with, or as with, paint.

To pelt roundly.

To pinch, or mark with pinches.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub.

Decked with feathers.

To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail or criticise in conversation, or in writing.

To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.

To praise greatly or extravagantly.