bennet
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of bennet
1225–75; Middle English ( herbe ) beneit < Old French ( herbe ) beneite, translation of Latin ( herba ) benedicta blessed (herb) (> Old English benedicte, Old High German benedicta, Middle Dutch benedictus-kruid ). See Benedictus
Example Sentences
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The verb 'to uck' was capable indeed of infinite conjugation, and young Aaron, breaking off a bennet, once asked me to kindly 'uck' a grain of hay-dust out of his eye with it.
From Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies
Everything was motionless under this yellow light, the grass-blades, the moss-blossoms, and the little blue butterflies, and a bumble-bee crawled into the bell of a bennet and hung there as if enchanted.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various
By-and-by a bennet, a bloom of the grass; in time to come the furrow, as it were, shall open, and the great buttercup of the waters will show a broad palm of gold.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies
One creeper had climbed up a bennet, or seeding grass-stalk, binding the stalk and a blade of the grass together, and flowering there.
From The Open Air by Richard Jefferies
A bennet slipped up his knickerbockers and tickled his leg.
From Wood Magic A Fable by Richard Jefferies
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