Bean

bēn, n. the name of several kinds of leguminous plants and their seeds: applied also to the seeds of some other plants, from their bean-like form, as the Calabar bean, .— ns. Bean′-feast , an annual dinner given by employers to their hands, perhaps from there having been served on such occasions beans or a Bean′-goose , a species of goose said to be so called from its fondne for devouring new-sown beans; Bean′-king , the king of the festivities on Twelfth Night, chosen on his finding a bean hidden in the Twelfth Cake. [A.S. béan ; Ger. bohne , W. ffäen ; L. fab a .]