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person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. The shining belt with gold inlaid. Dryden.

One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.

A prayer; boon. [Archaic] What is good for a bootless bene Wordsworth.

rose; whom Adam thus Followed with benediction. Milton. Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her. Longfellow. Specifically:

Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer. Thackeray.

The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness. And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.

, a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott.

A theatrical performance, a concert, or the like, the proceeds of which do not go to the lessee of the theater or to the company, but to some individual actor, or to some charitable use.

The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness. The wakeful benevolence of the gospel. Chalmers.

Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv.

The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness. "Benignity of aspect." Sir W. Scott.

To take away. [Obs.] Ire . . . benimeth the man fro God. Chaucer.

d of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.

To plaster over; to cover or smear thickly; to bedaub. Beplastered with rouge. Goldsmith.

To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith.

An alkaloid obtained, as a bitter, yellow substance, from the root of the barberry, gold thread, and other plants.

A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit. Wild bergamot (Bot.), an American herb of the Mint family (Monarda fistulosa).

A bernicle goose. [Written also barnacle.] Bernicle goose (Zoöl.), a goose (Branta leucopsis), of Arctic Europe and America. It was formerly believed that it hatched from the cirripeds of the sea (Lepas), which were, therefore, called barnacles, goose barnacles, or Anatifers. The name is also applied to other related s…

An allotted place; an appointment; situation or employment. "He has a good berth." Totten.

The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. [R.] Goodwin.