behemoth (behemoth)

[ Behold in plaited mail Behemoth rears his head. Thomson , Summer, 1. 710. behen, ben (bē'hen, ben), n. [Also written be ken, been, appar. a corruption of Ar. bahman, behmen, a kind of root, also the flower Rosa ca nina.] An old name of the bladder-campion, Silene in flat a. The behen-root of old pharmacists is said to have been the root of Centaurea Behen and of Statice Limonium, distinguished as white and red behen.