Index of English words, starting with "be"

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

(1) - Bencher (n.) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
(2) - Bencher (n.) A member of a court or council.
(3) - Bencher (n.) An alderman of a corporation.
(4) - Bencher (n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.

(1) - Bend (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.
(2) - Bend (v. t.) To turn toward some certain point; to direct; to incline.
(3) - Bend (v. t.) To apply closely or with interest; to direct.
(4) - Bend (v. t.) To cause to yield; to render submissive; to subdue.
(5) - Bend (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.
(6) - Bend (v. i.) To be moved or strained out of a straight line; to crook or be curving; to bow.
(7) - Bend (v. i.) To jut over; to overhang.
(8) - Bend (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.
(9) - Bend (v. i.) To bow in prayer, or in token of submission.
(10) - Bend (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.
(11) - Bend (n.) Turn; purpose; inclination; ends.
(12) - Bend (n.) A knot by which one rope is fastened to another or to an anchor, spar, or post.
(13) - Bend (n.) The best quality of sole leather; a butt. See Butt.
(14) - Bend (n.) Hard, indurated clay; bind.
(15) - Bend (n.) same as caisson disease. Usually referred to as the bends.
(16) - Bend (n.) A band.
(17) - Bend (v. i.) To be inclined; to be directed.

(1) - Bendable (a.) Capable of being bent.

(1) - Bender (n.) A sixpence.
(2) - Bender (n.) A drunken spree.
(3) - Bender (n.) An instrument used for bending.
(4) - Bender (n.) One who, or that which, bends.