Part 1053

<h1>Benthal</h1> <Xpage=137>

<hw>Ben"thal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <ets><?/</ets> the depth of the sea.]</ety> <def>Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.</def>

<h1>Benthamic</h1> <Xpage=137>

<hw>Ben*tham"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.</def>

<h1>Benthamism</h1> <Xpage=137>

<hw>Ben"tham*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.</def>

<h1>Benthamite</h1> <Xpage=137>

<hw>Ben"tham*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who believes in Benthamism.</def>

<h1>Benting time</h1> <Xpage=137>

<hw>Bent"ing time"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.</def>

<blockquote>Bare <b>benting times</b> . . . may come. <i> Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Benty</h1> <Xpage=137>

<hw>Bent"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; <as>as, <ex>benty</ex> fields</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Resembling bent.</def>

<i>Holland.</i>

<h1>Benumb</h1> <Xpage=137>

<hw>Be*numb"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Benumbed</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Benumbing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>binomen</ets>, p. p. of <ets>binimen</ets> to take away, AS. <ets>beniman</ets>; pref. <ets>be</ets> + <ets>niman</ets> to take. See <er>Numb</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, and cf. <er>Benim</er>.]</ety> <def>To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; <as>as, a hand or foot <ex>benumbed</ex> by cold</as>.</def>

<blockquote>The creeping death <b>benumbed</b> her senses first. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Benumbed</h1> <Xpage=137>

<hw>Be*numbed"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; <as>as, a <ex>benumbed</ex> body and mind</as>.</def> -- <wordforms><wf>Be*numbed"ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Benumbment</h1> <Xpage=137>

<hw>Be*numb"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor.</def>

<i> Kirby.</i>

<h1>Benzal</h1> <Xpage=137>

<hw>Ben"zal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Benzoic</ets> + <ets>al</ets>dehyde.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A transparent crystalline substance,<?/ C6H5.CO. NH2, obtained by the action of ammonia upon chloride of benzoyl, as also by several other reactions with benzoyl compounds.</def>

<h1>Benzamide</h1> <Xpage=137>

<hw>Ben*zam"ide</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Benz</ets>oin + <ets>amide</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>A transparent crystalline substance, C6H5.CO.NH2, obtained by the action of ammonia upon chloride of benzoyl, as also by several other reactions with benzoyl compounds.</def>

<h1>Benzene</h1> <Xpage=137>