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Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment. [Scot.]

The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa.

To promise; to name. [Obs.]

A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. Mossy benches supplied the place of chairs. Sir W. Scott.

Any permanent mark to which other levels may be referred. Specif. : A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.

A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.

One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler. [Obs.]

raining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.

Capable of being bent.

One who, or that which, bends.

The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

Diagonally.

Divided into an even number of bends; -- said of a shield or its charge. Cussans.

See Benne.

At or during pleasure. For our English judges there never was . . . any bene placito as their tenure. F. Harrison.

A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).

See Neaped.

in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii. 19. Beneath a rude and nameless stone he lies. Pope.

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.