BPage 108
- English Word Bent Definition A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
- English Word Bent Definition A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
- English Word Bent Definition Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
- English Word Bent Definition A transverse frame of a framed structure.
- English Word Bent Definition Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
- English Word Bent Definition A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
- English Word Bent Definition A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.
- English Word Bent Definition Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
- English Word Bent grass Definition Same as Bent, a kind of grass.
- English Word Benthal Definition Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.
- English Word Benthamic Definition Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
- English Word Benthamism Definition 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.
- English Word Benthamite Definition One who believes in Benthamism.
- English Word Benting time Definition The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.
- English Word Benty Definition A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.
- English Word Benty Definition Resembling bent.
- English Word Benumb Definition To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
- English Word Benumbed Definition of Benumb
- English Word Benumbed Definition Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body and mind.
- English Word Benumbing Definition of Benumb
- English Word Benumbment Definition Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.
- English Word Benzal Definition A compound radical, C6H5.CH, of the aromatic series, related to benzyl and benzoyl; -- used adjectively or in combination.
- English Word Benzamide Definition 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.
- English Word Benzene Definition 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.
- English Word Benzile Definition A yellowish crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.CO.C6H5, formed from benzoin by the action of oxidizing agents, and consisting of a doubled benzoyl radical.
- English Word Benzine Definition 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.
- English Word Benzine Definition Same as Benzene.
- English Word Benzoate Definition A salt formed by the union of benzoic acid with any salifiable base.
- English Word Benzoic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, benzoin.
- English Word Benzoin Definition 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.