Bend

bend, v.t. to curve or bow: make crooked; to turn or incline: to subdue. v.i. to be crooked or curved to lean to bow in submi ion:—pa.p. bend'ed or bent. n, a curve or crook. [A.S. bend an, to bend, from Band, a string; a bow was ‘bent' by tightening the band or string.] Beneath, be-nSth', prep under, or lower in place unbecoming —aav. in a lower place below, [A.S. pfx. be, and neothan beneath. See Nether.] Benedick, ben'e-dik, Benedict, ben'e-dikt, n. a newly-married man: also, a bachelor. [From Benedick, a character in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing, who begins as a confirmed bachelor and ends by marrying Be at rice Benedictine, ben-e-dikt'in, «. one of an order of monks named after St Benedict, called also Black Friars from the colour of their dre ,