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 first bennet is to green things what a swallow is to the breathing creatures of summer.
From The Toilers of the Field by Jefferies, Richard
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 Jefferies, Richard
He can judge a yard on the grass, because there is something to fix the eye on—the tall bennet or the buttercup yonder; but the water affords no data.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Jefferies, Richard
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 Jefferies, Richard
In it there shone many scores of white cheeses; around them bunches of sage, bennet, cardoon, and wild thyme hung drying, the entire herb apothecary shop of the Seneschal's daughter.
From Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Noyes, George Rapall
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