Name Report For First Name BENN:

BENN

First name BENN's origin is English. BENN means "abbreviation of benjamin and benedict". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with BENN below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of benn.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with BENN and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with BENN - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming BENN

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES BENN AS A WHOLE:

bennu bennet bennett bennie benny

NAMES RHYMING WITH BENN (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (enn) - Names That Ends with enn:

gwenn brenn glenn kenn lenn penn

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (nn) - Names That Ends with nn:

caoilfhionn fynn cynn corann tuireann caolabhuinn ceannfhionn eachann labhruinn lachlann martainn mazonn addilynn adelynn aislinn aislynn alinn alynn angelynn annalynn aoibheann ashelynn ashlinn ashlynn avlynn bebhinn bethann brendalynn brilynn brooklynn brynn caitlinn caitlynn caoilfhinnn carolann carolynn carynn charlynn cherilynn chrysann crisann daelynn dalynn danylynn davynn deann deeann diahann doireann dyann edlynn elynn erynn evelynn fionn geralynn gracelynn gwendalynn gwynn inghinn jacklynn jadalynn jaecilynn jaelynn jaimelynn jaslynn jaylynn jazlynn jazmynn jenalynn jennyann jerilynn jeslynn joann jonalynn jordynn josalynn joshlynn joycelynn jozzlynn kadalynn kaelynn kaitlinn kaitlynn kalynn katelynn kathrynn katlynn kaylynn keriann kerri-ann kimberlynn krynn krystalynn

NAMES RHYMING WITH BENN (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (ben) - Names That Begins with ben:

ben ben-ami ben-aryeh ben-tziyon bena benat benci bendigeidfran bendision benecroft benedetta benedicto benedictson benen benes beniamino benicio benigna benita benjamin benji benjiro benjy benkamin benoic benon benoni benoyce benroy benson bent bentle bentleah bentleigh bentley benton benwick benzion

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (be) - Names That Begins with be:

beacan beacher beadu beadurinc beadurof beadutun beadwof beagan beagen beal bealantin beale beall bealohydig beaman beamard beamer bean bearacb bearach bearcban bearn bearnard bearrocscir beartlaidh beat beatha beathag beathan beathas beatie beaton beatrice beatricia beatrisa beatriz beattie beatty beau beaufort beaumains beauvais beb bebeodan bebti becan becca beceere beck beckham becki becky beda bede bedegrayne bedivere bednar bedrosian bedver bedwyr beecher behdeti

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BENN:

First Names which starts with 'b' and ends with 'n':

baen baethan baibin bailintin bain bairrfhionn bairrfhoinn balduin baldwin baldwyn balen balin ban banain banan banbhan bannan baran bardan barden bardon baron barran barrington barron bartalan barton bastiaan bastien battseeyon battzion bawdewyn bayen baylen beldan belden beldon belen bellerophon beltran beomann beorhttun beorn beretun berihun berlyn bern bernardyn berneen bernon berrin bertin berton bestandan besyrwan bevan bevin bevyn bharain bheathain bhradain bian bingen binyamin biron biton bittan bitten bjorn blagdan blagden blagdon blian boden bodgan bodwyn bogdan bohannon bohdan bolton bonny-jean bordan borden botan bothain bothan bourkan bourn bowden bowdyn bowen bowyn boyden boynton bradan bradburn braddon braden bradon bradyn

English Words Rhyming BENN

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES BENN AS A WHOLE:

bennenoun (n.) 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.

bennetadjective (a.) 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 WORDS RHYMING WITH BENN (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (enn) - English Words That Ends with enn:


ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH BENN (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (ben) - Words That Begins with ben:


benchnoun (n.) A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length.
 noun (n.) A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench.
 noun (n.) The seat where judges sit in court.
 noun (n.) The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion of the full bench. See King's Bench.
 noun (n.) A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; -- so named because the animals are usually placed on benches or raised platforms.
 noun (n.) A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or river.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with benches.
 verb (v. t.) To place on a bench or seat of honor.
 verb (v. i.) To sit on a seat of justice.

benchingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bench

benchernoun (n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
 noun (n.) An alderman of a corporation.
 noun (n.) A member of a court or council.
 noun (n.) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.

bendingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bend
 noun (n.) The marking of the clothes with stripes or horizontal bands.

bendnoun (n.) A turn or deflection from a straight line or from the proper direction or normal position; a curve; a crook; as, a slight bend of the body; a bend in a road.
 noun (n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
 noun (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
 noun (n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
 noun (n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
 noun (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
 noun (n.) A band.
 noun (n.) One of the honorable ordinaries, containing a third or a fifth part of the field. It crosses the field diagonally from the dexter chief to the sinister base.
 verb (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee.
 verb (v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
 verb (v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
 verb (v. t.) To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor.
 verb (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
 verb (v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.
 verb (v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.
 verb (v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.

bendableadjective (a.) Capable of being bent.

bendernoun (n.) One who, or that which, bends.
 noun (n.) An instrument used for bending.
 noun (n.) A drunken spree.
 noun (n.) A sixpence.

bendletnoun (n.) A narrow bend, esp. one half the width of the bend.

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

benenoun (n.) See Benne.
 noun (n.) A prayer; boon.
 noun (n.) Alt. of Ben

bennoun (n.) A hoglike mammal of New Guinea (Porcula papuensis).
 adverb (adv. & prep.) Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.
 adverb (adv.) The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.
  () Alt. of Ben nut
  () An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be.

beneapedadjective (a.) See Neaped.

benedicitenoun (n.) 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.
 noun (n.) An exclamation corresponding to Bless you !.

benedictnoun (n.) Alt. of Benedick
 adjective (a.) Having mild and salubrious qualities.

benedicknoun (n.) A married man, or a man newly married.

benedictinenoun (n.) One of a famous order of monks, established by St. Benedict of Nursia in the sixth century. This order was introduced into the United States in 1846.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the monks of St. Benedict, or St. Benet.

benedictionnoun (n.) The act of blessing.
 noun (n.) A blessing; an expression of blessing, prayer, or kind wishes in favor of any person or thing; a solemn or affectionate invocation of happiness.
 noun (n.) The short prayer which closes public worship; as, to give the benediction.
 noun (n.) The form of instituting an abbot, answering to the consecration of a bishop.
 noun (n.) A solemn rite by which bells, banners, candles, etc., are blessed with holy water, and formally dedicated to God.

benedictionalnoun (n.) A book of benedictions.

benedictionarynoun (n.) A collected series of benedictions.

benedictiveadjective (a.) Tending to bless.

benedictoryadjective (a.) Expressing wishes for good; as, a benedictory prayer.

benedictusadjective (a.) The song of Zacharias at the birth of John the Baptist (Luke i. 68); -- so named from the first word of the Latin version.

benedightadjective (a.) Blessed.

benefactionnoun (n.) The act of conferring a benefit.
 noun (n.) A benefit conferred; esp. a charitable donation.

benefactornoun (n.) One who confers a benefit or benefits.

benefactressnoun (n.) A woman who confers a benefit.

beneficadjective (a.) Favorable; beneficent.

beneficenoun (n.) A favor or benefit.
 noun (n.) An estate in lands; a fief.
 noun (n.) An ecclesiastical living and church preferment, as in the Church of England; a church endowed with a revenue for the maintenance of divine service. See Advowson.
 verb (v. t.) To endow with a benefice.

beneficedadjective (a.) Possessed of a benefice or church preferment.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Benefice

beneficelessadjective (a.) Having no benefice.

beneficencenoun (n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.

beneficentadjective (a.) Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence.

beneficentialadjective (a.) Relating to beneficence.

beneficialadjective (a.) Conferring benefits; useful; profitable; helpful; advantageous; serviceable; contributing to a valuable end; -- followed by to.
 adjective (a.) Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate.
 adjective (a.) King.

beneficialnessnoun (n.) The quality of being beneficial; profitableness.

beneficiarynoun (n.) A feudatory or vassal; hence, one who holds a benefice and uses its proceeds.
 noun (n.) One who receives anything as a gift; one who receives a benefit or advantage; esp. one who receives help or income from an educational fund or a trust estate.
 adjective (a.) Holding some office or valuable possession, in subordination to another; holding under a feudal or other superior; having a dependent and secondary possession.
 adjective (a.) Bestowed as a gratuity; as, beneficiary gifts.

beneficientadjective (a.) Beneficent.

benefitnoun (n.) An act of kindness; a favor conferred.
 noun (n.) Whatever promotes prosperity and personal happiness, or adds value to property; advantage; profit.
 noun (n.) 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.
 noun (n.) Beneficence; liberality.
 noun (n.) Natural advantages; endowments; accomplishments.
 verb (v. t.) To be beneficial to; to do good to; to advantage; to advance in health or prosperity; to be useful to; to profit.
 verb (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to profit; as, he will benefit by the change.

benefittingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Benefit

benefiternoun (n.) One who confers a benefit; -- also, one who receives a benefit.

benevolencenoun (n.) The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
 noun (n.) An act of kindness; good done; charity given.
 noun (n.) A species of compulsory contribution or tax, which has sometimes been illegally exacted by arbitrary kings of England, and falsely represented as a gratuity.

benevolentadjective (a.) 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.

benevolousadjective (a.) Kind; benevolent.

bengalnoun (n.) A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.
 noun (n.) A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.
 noun (n.) Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes.

bengaleenoun (n.) Alt. of Bengali

bengalinoun (n.) The language spoken in Bengal.

bengalesenoun (n. sing. & pl) A native or natives of Bengal.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bengal.

bengolanoun (n.) A Bengal light.

benightingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Benight

benightmentnoun (n.) The condition of being benighted.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH BENN:

English Words which starts with 'b' and ends with 'n':

babiannoun (n.) Alt. of Babion

babionnoun (n.) A baboon.

baboonnoun (n.) One of the Old World Quadrumana, of the genera Cynocephalus and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

babyloniannoun (n.) An inhabitant of Babylonia (which included Chaldea); a Chaldean.
 noun (n.) An astrologer; -- so called because the Chaldeans were remarkable for the study of astrology.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the real or to the mystical Babylon, or to the ancient kingdom of Babylonia; Chaldean.

bacchanaliannoun (n.) A bacchanal; a drunken reveler.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.

backdownnoun (n.) A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.

backgammonnoun (n.) A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to point are determined by throwing dice. Formerly called tables.
 verb (v. i.) In the game of backgammon, to beat by ending the game before the loser is clear of his first "table".

backwardationnoun (n.) The seller's postponement of delivery of stock or shares, with the consent of the buyer, upon payment of a premium to the latter; -- also, the premium so paid. See Contango.

backwoodsmannoun (n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States.

baconnoun (n.) The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh.

baconiannoun (n.) One who adheres to the philosophy of Lord Bacon.
 noun (n.) One who maintains that Lord Bacon is the author of the works commonly attributed to Shakespeare.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy.

bactriannoun (n.) A native of Bactria.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bactria in Asia.

badiannoun (n.) An evergreen Chinese shrub of the Magnolia family (Illicium anisatum), and its aromatic seeds; Chinese anise; star anise.

badigeonnoun (n.) A cement or paste (as of plaster and freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, or finish a surface.
 noun (n.) A cement or distemper paste (as of plaster and powdered freestone, or of sawdust and glue or lime) used by sculptors, builders, and workers in wood or stone, to fill holes, cover defects, etc.

badmintonnoun (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
 noun (n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.

bagmannoun (n.) A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.

bainnoun (n.) A bath; a bagnio.

bairnnoun (n.) A child.

balconnoun (n.) A balcony.

baldachinnoun (n.) A rich brocade; baudekin.
 noun (n.) A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported by columns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from the wall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St. Peter's.
 noun (n.) A portable canopy borne over shrines, etc., in procession.

baldwinnoun (n.) A kind of reddish, moderately acid, winter apple.

baleennoun (n.) Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by side along the upper jaw, and form a fringelike sieve by which the food is retained in the mouth.

balloonnoun (n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
 noun (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
 noun (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
 noun (n.) A bomb or shell.
 noun (n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.
 noun (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
 verb (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
 verb (v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
 verb (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

ballotationnoun (n.) Voting by ballot.

ballotinnoun (n.) An officer who has charge of a ballot box.

balneationnoun (n.) The act of bathing.

balsamationnoun (n.) The act of imparting balsamic properties.
 noun (n.) The art or process of embalming.

bannoun (n.) A public proclamation or edict; a public order or notice, mandatory or prohibitory; a summons by public proclamation.
 noun (n.) A calling together of the king's (esp. the French king's) vassals for military service; also, the body of vassals thus assembled or summoned. In present usage, in France and Prussia, the most effective part of the population liable to military duty and not in the standing army.
 noun (n.) Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in church. See Banns (the common spelling in this sense).
 noun (n.) An interdiction, prohibition, or proscription.
 noun (n.) A curse or anathema.
 noun (n.) A pecuniary mulct or penalty laid upon a delinquent for offending against a ban; as, a mulct paid to a bishop by one guilty of sacrilege or other crimes.
 noun (n.) An ancient title of the warden of the eastern marches of Hungary; now, a title of the viceroy of Croatia and Slavonia.
 verb (v. t.) To curse; to invoke evil upon.
 verb (v. t.) To forbid; to interdict.
 verb (v. i.) To curse; to swear.

bandonnoun (n.) Disposal; control; license.

baniannoun (n.) A Hindoo trader, merchant, cashier, or money changer.
 noun (n.) A man's loose gown, like that worn by the Banians.
 noun (n.) The Indian fig. See Banyan.

bannitionnoun (n.) The act of expulsion.

banyannoun (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men.

baptizationnoun (n.) Baptism.

barbacannoun (n.) See Barbican.
 noun (n.) A tower or advanced work defending the entrance to a castle or city, as at a gate or bridge. It was often large and strong, having a ditch and drawbridge of its own.
 noun (n.) An opening in the wall of a fortress, through which missiles were discharged upon an enemy.

barbadiannoun (n.) A native of Barbados.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Barbados.

barbariannoun (n.) A foreigner.
 noun (n.) A man in a rule, savage, or uncivilized state.
 noun (n.) A person destitute of culture.
 noun (n.) A cruel, savage, brutal man; one destitute of pity or humanity.
 adjective (a.) Of, or pertaining to, or resembling, barbarians; rude; uncivilized; barbarous; as, barbarian governments or nations.

barbicannoun (n.) Alt. of Barbacan

barbitonnoun (n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

barconnoun (n.) A vessel for freight; -- used in Mediterranean.

bargainnoun (n.) An agreement between parties concerning the sale of property; or a contract by which one party binds himself to transfer the right to some property for a consideration, and the other party binds himself to receive the property and pay the consideration.
 noun (n.) An agreement or stipulation; mutual pledge.
 noun (n.) A purchase; also ( when not qualified), a gainful transaction; an advantageous purchase; as, to buy a thing at a bargain.
 noun (n.) The thing stipulated or purchased; also, anything bought cheap.
 noun (n.) To make a bargain; to make a contract for the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow.
 verb (v. t.) To transfer for a consideration; to barter; to trade; as, to bargain one horse for another.

bargemannoun (n.) The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.

barkenadjective (a.) Made of bark.

barleycornnoun (n.) A grain or "corn" of barley.
 noun (n.) Formerly , a measure of length, equal to the average length of a grain of barley; the third part of an inch.

barnnoun (n.) A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables.
 noun (n.) A child. [Obs.] See Bairn.
 verb (v. t.) To lay up in a barn.

baronnoun (n.) A title or degree of nobility; originally, the possessor of a fief, who had feudal tenants under him; in modern times, in France and Germany, a nobleman next in rank below a count; in England, a nobleman of the lowest grade in the House of Lords, being next below a viscount.
 noun (n.) A husband; as, baron and feme, husband and wife.

barracannoun (n.) A thick, strong stuff, somewhat like camlet; -- still used for outer garments in the Levant.

barracoonnoun (n.) A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quartered temporarily.

barrennoun (n.) A tract of barren land.
 noun (n.) Elevated lands or plains on which grow small trees, but not timber; as, pine barrens; oak barrens. They are not necessarily sterile, and are often fertile.
 adjective (a.) Incapable of producing offspring; producing no young; sterile; -- said of women and female animals.
 adjective (a.) Not producing vegetation, or useful vegetation; /rile.
 adjective (a.) Unproductive; fruitless; unprofitable; empty.
 adjective (a.) Mentally dull; stupid.

bartizannoun (n.) A small, overhanging structure for lookout or defense, usually projecting at an angle of a building or near an entrance gateway.

bartonnoun (n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.
 noun (n.) A farmyard.

basannoun (n.) Same as Basil, a sheepskin.

basebornadjective (a.) Born out of wedlock.
 adjective (a.) Born of low parentage.
 adjective (a.) Vile; mean.

basilicanadjective (a.) Of, relating to, or resembling, a basilica; basilical.

basiliconnoun (n.) An ointment composed of wax, pitch, resin, and olive oil, lard, or other fatty substance.

basinnoun (n.) A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.
 noun (n.) The quantity contained in a basin.
 noun (n.) A hollow vessel, of various forms and materials, used in the arts or manufactures, as that used by glass grinders for forming concave glasses, by hatters for molding a hat into shape, etc.
 noun (n.) A hollow place containing water, as a pond, a dock for ships, a little bay.
 noun (n.) A circular or oval valley, or depression of the surface of the ground, the lowest part of which is generally occupied by a lake, or traversed by a river.
 noun (n.) The entire tract of country drained by a river, or sloping towards a sea or lake.
 noun (n.) An isolated or circumscribed formation, particularly where the strata dip inward, on all sides, toward a center; -- especially applied to the coal formations, called coal basins or coal fields.

basionnoun (n.) The middle of the anterior margin of the great foramen of the skull.

basonnoun (n.) A basin.

basset hornadjective (a.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.
  () The corno di bassetto.

bassoonnoun (n.) A wind instrument of the double reed kind, furnished with holes, which are stopped by the fingers, and by keys, as in flutes. It forms the natural bass to the oboe, clarinet, etc.

bassorinnoun (n.) A constituent part of a species of gum from Bassora, as also of gum tragacanth and some gum resins. It is one of the amyloses.

bastionnoun (n.) A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.

bastonnoun (n.) A staff or cudgel.
 noun (n.) See Baton.
 noun (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.

bataviannoun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Batavia or Holland.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to (a) the Batavi, an ancient Germanic tribe; or to (b) /atavia or Holland; as, a Batavian legion.

batmannoun (n.) A weight used in the East, varying according to the locality; in Turkey, the greater batman is about 157 pounds, the lesser only a fourth of this; at Aleppo and Smyrna, the batman is 17 pounds.
 noun (n.) A man who has charge of a bathorse and his load.

batonnoun (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
 noun (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

batoonnoun (n.) See Baton, and Baston.

batrachiannoun (n.) One of the Batrachia.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Batrachia.

batsmannoun (n.) The one who wields the bat in cricket, baseball, etc.

battalionnoun (n.) A body of troops; esp. a body of troops or an army in battle array.
 noun (n.) A regiment, or two or more companies of a regiment, esp. when assembled for drill or battle.
 noun (n.) An infantry command of two or more companies, which is the tactical unit of the infantry, or the smallest command which is self-supporting upon the battlefield, and also the unit in which the strength of the infantry of an army is expressed.
 verb (v. t.) To form into battalions.

battonnoun (n.) See Batten, and Baton.

baudekinnoun (n.) The richest kind of stuff used in garments in the Middle Ages, the web being gold, and the woof silk, with embroidery : -- made originally at Bagdad.

bavariannoun (n.) A native or an inhabitant of Bavaria.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Bavaria.

baviannoun (n.) A baboon.

bavinnoun (n.) A fagot of brushwood, or other light combustible matter, for kindling fires; refuse of brushwood.
 noun (n.) Impure limestone.

bawnnoun (n.) An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure.
 noun (n.) A large house.

bawsinnoun (n.) Alt. of Bawson

bawsonnoun (n.) A badger.
 noun (n.) A large, unwieldy person.

beaconnoun (n.) A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning.
 noun (n.) A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
 noun (n.) A high hill near the shore.
 noun (n.) That which gives notice of danger.
 verb (v. t.) To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with a beacon or beacons.

beadsmannoun (n.) Alt. of Bedesman

bedesmannoun (n.) A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman.
 noun (n.) Same as Beadsman.

beadswomannoun (n.) Alt. of Bedeswoman

bedeswomannoun (n.) Fem. of Beadsman.

beakironnoun (n.) A bickern; a bench anvil with a long beak, adapted to reach the interior surface of sheet metal ware; the horn of an anvil.

beannoun (n.) A name given to the seed of certain leguminous herbs, chiefly of the genera Faba, Phaseolus, and Dolichos; also, to the herbs.
 noun (n.) The popular name of other vegetable seeds or fruits, more or less resembling true beans.

bearnnoun (n.) See Bairn.

bearskinnoun (n.) The skin of a bear.
 noun (n.) A coarse, shaggy, woolen cloth for overcoats.
 noun (n.) A cap made of bearskin, esp. one worn by soldiers.

beatenadjective (a.) Made smooth by beating or treading; worn by use.
 adjective (a.) Vanquished; conquered; baffled.
 adjective (a.) Exhausted; tired out.
 adjective (a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase.
 adjective (a.) Tried; practiced.
  () of Beat

beatificationnoun (n.) The act of beatifying, or the state of being beatified; esp., in the R. C. Church, the act or process of ascertaining and declaring that a deceased person is one of "the blessed," or has attained the second degree of sanctity, -- usually a stage in the process of canonization.

beaufinnoun (n.) See Biffin.

beaverteennoun (n.) A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing.

beckonnoun (n.) A sign made without words; a beck.
 verb (v. t.) To make a significant sign to; hence, to summon, as by a motion of the hand.

bedennoun (n.) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.

bedgownnoun (n.) A nightgown.

bedouinnoun (n.) One of the nomadic Arabs who live in tents, and are scattered over Arabia, Syria, and northern Africa, esp. in the deserts.
 adjective (a.) Pertaining to the Bedouins; nomad.

bedpannoun (n.) A pan for warming beds.
 noun (n.) A shallow chamber vessel, so constructed that it can be used by a sick person in bed.

beduinnoun (n.) See Bedouin.

beechenadjective (a.) Consisting, or made, of the wood or bark of the beech; belonging to the beech.

beginnoun (n.) Beginning.
 verb (v. i.) To have or commence an independent or first existence; to take rise; to commence.
 verb (v. i.) To do the first act or the first part of an action; to enter upon or commence something new, as a new form or state of being, or course of action; to take the first step; to start.
 verb (v. t.) To enter on; to commence.
 verb (v. t.) To trace or lay the foundation of; to make or place a beginning of.

beguinnoun (n.) See Beghard.

behennoun (n.) Alt. of Behn