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. 2026 Editor's Note: Benedick and Beatrice, sparring their way from mutual scorn into love, invented a template that never wore out: their bickering courtship is the direct ancestor of every enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy since. "A benedick" also entered English for a confirmed bachelor at last married off. (Ed: BR 2026-06-09)
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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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Benedictine
a liqueur prepared by the Benedictine monks of the abbey of Fécamp, in Normandy, consisting of spirit (fine brandy) containing an infusion of the juices of plants. It has been made in the same way since 1510.
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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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Benesh
EDWARD, a Czecho-Slovak statesman, one of the delegates at the Paris Peace Conference. He was a student of sociology and a teacher at the Czech University of Prague. He escaped from Bohemia early in the war and joined Thomas Masaryk, later president of Czecho-Slovakia, in the foundation of the Czecho-Slovakian Council. He performed valuable services in the Czecho-Slovakian army and secured recognition of the state by the Allies.
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Benevento
a city of southern Italy, seat of an archbishop, capital of a province of the same name, between and near the confluence of the Calore and Sabato, 32 miles N. E. of Naples. The modern town is almost entirely constructed out of the ruins of the ancient. Among its most perfect remains of antiquity is the Arch of Trajan, erected about A. D. 114. Near Benevento, in 1266, was fought the great battle ✓ between Charles of Anjou and his rival, Manfred, in which the latter was killed, and his army totally defeated. During the reign of Napoleon I., Bene vento was formed into a principality conferred on Talleyrand. In 1815, 1815, it again reverted to the Pope. In 1860 it was annexed to the kingdom of Italy. Pop. about 25,000.
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Bengal
a presidency of British India. The name is applied to territory having widely varying boundaries, and inhabited by from 4,000,000 to 70,000,000 people according to the interpretation placed on the name. It is perhaps sufficient for the general reader to say that historical Bengal extends from the foothills of the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, and that it comprises the great plains of the Ganges and the Brahmaputra, the choicest parts of India. See Calcutta ; Ganges ; Brahmaputra; Clive ; Cornwallis ; Hastings ; India ; Tiger ; Cobra ; Irrigation ; Opium 2026 Editor's Note: Bengal was split twice — a 1905 partition that provoked such fury it was reversed, then the 1947 division into Indian West Bengal and East Pakistan, which won independence as Bangladesh in 1971. In between came catastrophe: the Bengal famine of 1943 , in which some three million people died amid a wartime failure of policy and relief. (Ed: BR 2026-06-16)
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