English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
Dictionary
Bender
(n.)
A drunken spree.
Bender
(n.)
A sixpence.
Bending
(n.)
The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal
bands.
Bending
(p. pr. & vb. n.)
of Bend
Bendlet
(n.)
A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
Bendwise
(adv.)
Diagonally.
Bendy
(a.)
Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or
its charge.
Bene
(n.)
A prayer; boon.
Bene
(n.)
Alt. of Ben
Bene
(n.)
See Benne.
At pleasure; ad libitum.
At or during pleasure.
Beneaped
(a.)
See Neaped.
Beneath
(prep.)
Lower in rank, dignity, or excellence than; as, brutes
are beneath man; man is beneath angels in the scale of beings. Hence:
Unworthy of; unbecoming.
Beneath
(adv.)
In a lower place; underneath.
Beneath
(adv.)
Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region
or position; as, in earth beneath.
Beneath
(prep.)
Under, in relation to something that is superior, or
that oppresses or burdens.
Beneath
(prep.)
Lower in place, with something directly over or on;
under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.
Benedicite
(n.)
A canticle (the Latin version of which begins with this
word) which may be used in the order for morning prayer in the Church
of England. It is taken from an apocryphal addition to the third
chapter of Daniel.
Benedicite
(n.)
An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !.