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The nave of a church. Addison.

Unfit to speak of; unmentionable; impious; execrable. [Obs.] "Nefand adominations." Sheldon. "Nefandous high treason." Cotton Mather.

Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.

Any fish of the genus Distichodus. Several large species inhabit the Nile.

Wicked. [R.]

A power-driven, heavier-than-air flying machine.

Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious. "Baneful hemlock." Garth. "Baneful wrath." Chapman. -- Bane"ful*ly, adv. --Bane"ful*ness, n.

The act of conferring a benefit. Johnson.

One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.

A woman who confers a benefit. His benefactress blushes at the deed. Cowper.

Favorable; beneficent. Milton.

A favor or benefit. [Obs.] Baxter.

Possessed of a benefice o "Beneficed clergymen." Burke.

Having no benefice. "Beneficeless precisians." Sheldon.

ve 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.

Relating to beneficence.

In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.

Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which would have been most beneficial to us. Swift.

In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.