Ben Nut
the seed of moringa pterygosperma, the ben tree of India, yielding the valuable oil of ben.
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Single-source entries: B (41)
Each of these 13 subjects appears in only one of the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. None is long enough to carry a page by itself, so they are gathered here by letter. Anything that grows moves out to a page of its own.
Benbow
JOHN, an English admiral, born in 1650 at Shrewsbury. His skill and valor, displayed during an action with a Barbary pirate at the head of a superior force, gained him a captaincy Rear-Admiral in in the Royal navy. 1700, he had his leg carried away by a chain-shot during an engagement with the French Commodore, Du Casse, in 1702, and he died in Jamaica, in 1702.
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Bench
in law, the seat which judges or magistrates occupy officially in a court of justice; also the judges or magistrates sitting together to try cases. The Court of King's bench (named, when a female sovereign is on the throne, the Court of Queen's Bench) formerly was one of the three chief courts in England. The judicial business of the Great Council of the nation coming to be transacted in the King's palace, the court which attended to it was called that of the Aula Regis, viz., of the King's palace. It gradually separated into threethe Courts of King's Bench, of Common Pleas, and of the Exchequer. From its very outset it was a court of record. Its separate existence was abolished by the judicature act of 1873, and now it is the King's Bench Division of the High Court of Judicature. In engineering, a bench is a horizontal ledge on the side of a cutting; an embankment or parapet, a berme, a ban-
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Bench Warrant
a warrant issued by the court before which an indictment has been found to arrest the accused, that he may appear and find bail for his appearance at the trial. It is used extensively in the United States to bring into court persons who have neglected to obey an order of court, such as delinquent jurymen.
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Bench-moulder
A moulder, whose work being of a light description, can perform all the operations required for producing it in small wooden or iron flasks, standing up to his work at a suitably provided bench. See SNAPMOULDER.
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Bench-rammer
A short wooden rammer used by the bench-moulder. It has just space sufficient between the butt and peen ends for the hand to grasp it. It is common for the moulder to use one in each hand.
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Bencoolen
or BENKULEN, a seaport on the W. coast of Sumatra Island, Dutch East Indies; capital of a residency of the same name. It was founded in 1685 by the English and ceded to the Dutch in 1824. Area of residency, 9,433 square miles; pop. of residency about 225,000; of town about 12,000.
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Bend-pipe
A common name for all classes of curved pipes that are not distinctively elbows. The moulding of such pipes demands the attention of moulder and pattern-maker more than any other, simply because the constantly varying curves required make it impossible to keep a stock of patterns on hand for the purpose. Hence, all manner of devices for moulding are resorted to, to save pattern-making, and, at the same time, obtain a good casting. See JOBBING-MOULDER; LOAM-PATTERN; TOUCH.
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Bendigo
a city of Victoria, Australia, the capital of Bendigo co. It is about 100 miles N. W. of Melbourne. In the neighborhood are important gold mines. The town is situated in a fertile agricultural region and grain and fruit are extensively grown. There are handsome public buildings including a town hall, a mechanics' institute, and several churches. It is the seat of a Roman Catholic bishop. Pop. (1918) 35,590.
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Benedick
in Shakespeare's comedy, Much Ado about Nothing , a young gentleman of Padua. He ridicules love and marriage, but, after a "courtship which is a contest of wit and raillery," he marries Beatrice. The name Benedick, spelled also Benedict, comes from the Latin and signifies a happy man. It was sometimes applied in sport to the monks of the order of St. Benedict, noted for their ascetic habits, and who were, of course, vowed to celibacy. Shakespeare may have had this jest in mind when he gave the name to the lover of Beatrice. It is Shakespeare's Benedick, and not the jest, that is to be remembered when we hear a newly wedded man called a "benedick." When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.-Much Ado about Nothing.
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Benedict
ST., the founder of the Order of the Benedictine Monks, was born at Nursia, in the Dukedom of Spoleto, in Italy, in 480 A. D. He was sent to Rome when very young, and there 32-Vol. I-Cyc received the first part pa of his education; when 14 years of age, he removed to Subiaco, a desert place about 40 miles distant, where he was concealed in a cav- The monks of a neighboring monern. astery subsequently chose him for their abbot; their manners, however, not agreeing with those of Benedict, he returned to his solitude, whither many persons followed him, and in a short time he was enabled to build no fewer than 12 monasteries. About 528 he retired to Monte Cassino, where idolatry was still prevalent. Having converted the people of the adjacent country, he broke the statue of Apollo, overthrew the altar, and built two oratories on the mountain, one dedicated to St. Martin, the other to St. John. Here St. Benedict also founded a monastery, and instituted the Order of his name, which in time extended all over Europe. It was here, too, that he composed his "Regula Monachorum." Authors are not agreed upon the place where St. Benedict died; some say at Monte Cassino; others affirm it to have been at Rome about 543 or 547. Gregory the Great, in the second "Book of his Dialogues," has written a "Life of St. Benedict."
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Benedictus
the name given to the hymn of Zacharias (Luke i: 68), used as a canticle in the morning service of the Church of England to follow the les- This position it has occupied from sons. very ancient times. It is also used in the Church of Rome.
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Benemmerinnen
Hebrew witches who haunt women in childbirth for the purpose of stealing new-born infants.
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