(dated) Poison, especially any of several poisonous plants.
(obsolete) A killer, murderer, slayer.
(obsolete) Destruction; death.
A cause of misery or death.
A disease of sheep.
verb
(transitive) To be the bane of.
(transitive) To kill, especially by poison; to be the poison of.
bean
bean
noun
(Britain, slang, archaic) A guinea coin.
(Britain, slang, chiefly in the negative) Money.
(by extension) An object resembling a pea or bean in shape, often made from plastic or styrofoam and used in large numbers as packing material or as stuffing for beanbags and similar items.
(by extension) The bean-like seed of certain other plants, such a a vanilla bean or (especially) a coffee bean.
(slang) The head or brain.
(slang, often endearing) A person.
(software) Clipping of JavaBean.
Any plant of several genera of the taxonomic family Fabaceae that produces large edible seeds or edible seedpods.
The edible seedpod of such a plant.
The large edible seed of such a plant (for example, a broad bean, navy bean, or garbanzo bean).
verb
(chiefly baseball) To hit deliberately with a projectile, especially in the head.
been
been
noun
(UK dialectal) plural of bee
verb
(Southern US or African-American Vernacular) remote past form of be.
(Southern US or African-American Vernacular, rare) Synonym of be (infinitival sense).
(obsolete) plural simple present of be.
past participle of be.
behn
bein
bein
adj
(Now chiefly dialectal) Wealthy; well-to-do.
(Now chiefly dialectal) Well provided; comfortable; cosy.
adv
(Now chiefly dialectal) Comfortably.
verb
(transitive, Scotland) To dry.
(transitive, Scotland) To render or make comfortable.
bena
bend
bend
noun
(heraldry) One of the honourable ordinaries formed by two diagonal lines drawn from the dexter chief to the sinister base; it generally occupies a fifth part of the shield if uncharged, but if charged one third.
(in the plural, medicine, underwater diving, with the) A severe condition caused by excessively quick decompression, causing bubbles of nitrogen to form in the blood; decompression sickness.
(mining) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
(music) A glissando, or glide between one pitch and another.
(nautical, in the plural) The frames or ribs that form the ship's body from the keel to the top of the sides.
(nautical, in the plural) The thickest and strongest planks in a ship's sides, more generally called wales, which have the beams, knees, and futtocks bolted to them.
(obsolete) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
A curve.
Any of the various knots which join the ends of two lines.
In the leather trade, the best quality of sole leather; a butt; sometimes, half a butt cut lengthwise.
verb
(intransitive) To apply oneself to a task or purpose.
(intransitive) To be inclined; to direct itself.
(intransitive) To become curved.
(intransitive) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
(intransitive) To change direction.
(intransitive) To submit.
(intransitive, nautical) To swing the body when rowing.
(intransitive, usually with "down") To stoop.
(transitive) To adapt or interpret to for a purpose or beneficiary.
(transitive) To apply to a task or purpose.
(transitive) To cause (something) to change its shape into a curve, by physical force, chemical action, or any other means.
(transitive) To cause to change direction.
(transitive) To force to submit.
(transitive, music) To smoothly change the pitch of a note.
(transitive, nautical) To tie, as in securing a line to a cleat; to shackle a chain to an anchor; make fast.
bene
bene
adj
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Good.
noun
(now chiefly dialectal) A prayer, especially to God; a petition; a boon.
(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Tongue.
Alternative form of benne (“sesame”)
beng
beni
benj
benj
noun
Obsolete form of bhang (“cannabis”).
benn
beno
beno
noun
An alcoholic drink distilled from the fermented sap of palm trees, originating from the Philippines.
bens
bens
noun
(job advertisements) benefits
plural of ben
bent
bent
adj
(Of a person) leading a life of crime.
(Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.
(colloquial, chiefly UK) Corrupt, dishonest.
(colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
(derogatory, colloquial, chiefly UK) Homosexual.
(slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
(slang, soccer) Inaccurately aimed.
Determined or insistent.
noun
A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
A grassy area, grassland.
A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
An inclination or talent.
Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.
Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.
Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
The old dried stalks of grasses.
The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
verb
simple past tense and past participle of bend
benu
benz
bern
bien
bine
bine
noun
(UK, slang) cigarette
(botany) A climbing plant which climbs by its shoots growing in a helix around a support (distinct from a vine, which climbs using tendrils or suckers).
blen
bnet
bone
bone
adj
Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
noun
(American football, informal) The wishbone formation.
(US, informal) A dollar.
(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.
(figurative) A reward.
(figurative) The framework of anything.
(slang) A cannabis cigarette; a joint.
(slang) An erect penis; a boner.
(slang) Clipping of trombone.
(slang, chiefly in the plural) A domino or dice.
(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.
A bone of a fish; a fishbone.
A bonefish
An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.
Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.
One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music.
One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.
verb
(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.
(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.
(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.
(transitive, slang) To apprehend, steal.
(usually with "up") To study.
(vulgar, slang, usually of a man, transitive, intransitive) To have sexual intercourse (with).
To fertilize with bone.
To nag, especially for an unpaid debt.
To polish boots to a shiny finish.
To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.
To put whalebone into.
bren
bren
verb
(obsolete, transitive) To burn (to set ablaze).
eben
eben
adj
Pronunciation spelling of even, representing African-American English English.
ebon
ebon
adj
(poetic) Black in colour.
(poetic) Made of ebony.
noun
(now poetic) Ebony; an ebony tree.
inbe
nabe
nabe
noun
(frequently in the plural) Neighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema.