English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Bent
(v.)
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a
straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.
Bent
(v.)
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
Bent
(v.)
A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination;
disposition; purpose; aim.
Bent
(v.)
Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
Bent
(v.)
A transverse frame of a framed structure.
Bent
(v.)
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
Bent
(n.)
A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
Bent
(n.)
A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or
redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
Bent
(n.)
Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
of Bend
Same as Bent, a kind of grass.
Benthal
(a.)
Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.
Benthamic
(a.)
Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
Benthamism
(n.)
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.
Benthamite
(n.)
One who believes in Benthamism.
The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents,
before peas are ripe.
Benty
(a.)
A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff,
withered grass; as, benty fields.
Benty
(a.)
Resembling bent.
Benumb
(a.)
To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to
stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
Benumbed
(a.)
Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed
body and mind.