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  • English Word Bengola Definition A Bengal light.
  • English Word Benight Definition To involve in darkness; to shroud with the shades of night; to obscure.
  • English Word Benight Definition To overtake with night or darkness, especially before the end of a day's journey or task.
  • English Word Benight Definition To involve in moral darkness, or ignorance; to debar from intellectual light.
  • English Word Benighted Definition of Benight
  • English Word Benighting Definition of Benight
  • English Word Benightment Definition The condition of being benighted.
  • English Word Benign Definition Of a kind or gentle disposition; gracious; generous; favorable; benignant.
  • English Word Benign Definition Exhibiting or manifesting kindness, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome.
  • English Word Benign Definition Of a mild type or character; as, a benign disease.
  • English Word Benignancy Definition Benignant quality; kindliness.
  • English Word Benignant Definition Kind; gracious; favorable.
  • English Word Benignity Definition The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness.
  • English Word Benignity Definition Mildness; gentleness.
  • English Word Benignity Definition Salubrity; wholesome quality.
  • English Word Benignly Definition In a benign manner.
  • English Word Benim Definition To take away.
  • English Word Benison Definition Blessing; beatitude; benediction.
  • English Word Benitier Definition A holy-water stoup.
  • English Word Benjamin Definition See Benzoin.
  • English Word Benjamin Definition A kind of upper coat for men.
  • English Word Benjamite Definition A descendant of Benjamin; one of the tribe of Benjamin.
  • English Word Benne Definition The name of two plants (Sesamum orientale and S. indicum), originally Asiatic; -- also called oil plant. From their seeds an oil is expressed, called benne oil, used mostly for making soap. In the southern United States the seeds are used in candy.
  • English Word Bennet Definition The common yellow-flowered avens of Europe (Geum urbanum); herb bennet. The name is sometimes given to other plants, as the hemlock, valerian, etc.
  • English Word Benshee Definition See Banshee.
  • English Word Bent Definition of Bend
  • English Word Bent Definition imp. & p. p. of Bend.
  • English Word Bent Definition Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.
  • English Word Bent Definition Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; -- said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.
  • English Word Bent Definition The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.