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
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Bevis, with his eyes shut, kept quite still under this luxurious tickling for some time, till Mark, getting tired, put the bennet delicately on his lip, when he started and rubbed his mouth.
From Bevis The Story of a Boy by Richard Jefferies
Watch this ant travelling patiently onward, and mark the distance traversed by the milestone of a tall bennet.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
The first bennet is to green things what a swallow is to the breathing creatures of summer.
From The Toilers of the Field by Richard Jefferies
These eggs, when taken and the yolk blown out, were strung on a bennet and so carried home.
From Wild Life in a Southern County 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
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