BPage 104
- English Word Bending Definition of Bend
- English Word Bending Definition The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.
- English Word Bendlet Definition A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.
- English Word Bendwise Definition Diagonally.
- English Word Bendy Definition Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge.
- English Word Bene Definition See Benne.
- English Word Bene Definition A prayer; boon.
- English Word Bene Definition Alt. of Ben
- English Word Bene placito Definition At or during pleasure.
- English Word Bene placito Definition At pleasure; ad libitum.
- English Word Beneaped Definition See Neaped.
- English Word Beneath Definition Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of.
- English Word Beneath Definition Under, in relation to something that is superior, or that oppresses or burdens.
- English Word Beneath Definition 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.
- English Word Beneath Definition In a lower place; underneath.
- English Word Beneath Definition Below, as opposed to heaven, or to any superior region or position; as, in earth beneath.
- English Word Benedicite Definition 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.
- English Word Benedicite Definition An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !.
- English Word Benedick Definition A married man, or a man newly married.
- English Word Benedict Definition Alt. of Benedick
- English Word Benedict Definition Having mild and salubrious qualities.
- English Word Benedictine Definition Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.
- English Word Benedictine Definition 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.
- English Word Benediction Definition The act of blessing.
- English Word Benediction Definition A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness.
- English Word Benediction Definition The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction.
- English Word Benediction Definition The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop.
- English Word Benediction Definition A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.
- English Word Benedictional Definition A book of benedictions.
- English Word Benedictionary Definition A collected series of benedictions.