bent ing time (bentingtim)

The time when pigeons feed on bents before peas are ripe: as, "rare benting -times," Dryden, Hind and Panther, iii. 1283. bentivi, bentiveo (ben-tēvē, -tē vā'ō), n. [Said to be Braz.] A name, said to be used in Brazil, of a clamatorial pa erine bird of the family Tyrannidæ, the Pitangus sulphur at us of authors in general, Tyrannus sulphur at us (Vieillot), Lanius sulphur at us (Linnæus), originally described in 1760 by Bri on as la pie - griesche jaune de Cayenne, and hence long supposed to be a shrike. ben trovato (bān trō-vätō). [It.: ben, well; trovato (pl. trovati ), pp. of trovare, find, invent: see trove.] Well feigned; well invented: a part of a familiar Italian saying, Se non è vero, è ben trovato (If it is not true, it is well imagined), sometimes introduced, in various relations, in English. Various anecdotes of him [Dante] are related by Bocсасcio, Sacchetti, and others, none of them verisimilar, and some of them at least fifteen centuries old when revamped. Most of them are neither ver i nor ben trovati . Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 19.