benched, bennkedd

& a Furnished with benches. "Tatt bridal e hus wa all Withth thrinne bennke bennkedd ." Ormulum , 15,231. "Twas bench'd with turf."-Dryden. běnch-er, s. [Eng. bench; -er.] A. Ordinary Language: 1. Gen.: Any one who sits upon a bench. "If the pillows be of silver and the benches of gold, and though the benchers be kings."-Golden Boke , let. 7. (S. in Boucher.) 2. Specially : (a) One who sits upon the bench within or in front of a tavern, an idler. (b) A judge, & magistrate, a senator. "You are well understood to be a perfecter giber for the table, than a nece ary bencher in the Capitol."Shakesp. Coriol ., ii. 1. B. Technically : *1. Municipal arrangements: A councilman. "This Corporation [New Windsor) consists of a mayor, two bailiffs, and twenty-eight other persons, who are to be chosen out of the inhabitants of the borough, thirteen of which are called fellows, and ten of them aldermen or chief benchers." - Ashmole: Berks hire, iii. 58. 2. Law (Inns of Court), Plur. Benchers: The senior meinbers of the legal societies known as the Inns of Court. Formerly they were called ancients. They were admitted within the bar, and were therefore also denominated inner barristers as distinguished from utter (outer) barristers , whose appropriate place was outside the bar. [BARRISTER.) They govern the Inns of Court, and are themselves practically the Inns, notwithstanding which they exercise the national function of deciding who shall be admitted to the bar with the privilege of practising in the law courts, and who shall be prevented from obtaining this privilege. They can also disbench or disbar a barrister; an appeal, however, lying from them to the judges. "He [Selden) seldom or never appeared publicly at the bar (tho' a bencher ), but gave sometimes chamber counsel."- Wood : Athen . Ozon . IMG:content-1226.png:[blocks in formation] Entom. A black bug of the genus Reduvius, found on the South American Pampas. běnd (1), bende (pret. bent , * bended ; pa. par. bent , bended , ibent ), v.t. & i. [A.S. bend an (1) to bend, incline, or lean, (2) to stretch, to extend; O. Icel. bend a ; Fr. bander =to bind, stretch, bend, used in the sense of bend, chiefly of a bow. Originally (bend is derived from band ) band and bond were but different methods of writing the same word. (Trench: Eng. Past & Present, p. 65).] A. Transitive: L Ordinary Language.: 1. Lit. Of things material: To employ the appropriate means to render anything temporarily or permanently curved or crooked; to incline. Used specially (1) Of a bow : To make it temporarily curved by pulling the string, the design being that by suddenly returning again to a more nearly rectilinear form it may impel an arrow. "They bend their bows, they whirl the slings around." Dryden. (2) Of portions of the human body : To render them arched or curved, or angular, or turn them in a particular direction. (a) Of the back : To make it for the time being arched or curved. "But bends his sturdy back to any toy That youth takes pleasure in, to please his boy." Cowper: Tirocinium (b) Of the knees: To make them take an angular form by more or le decidedly adopting a kneeling attitude. "Unto my mother's prayers I bend my knee." Shakesp.: Richard 11., v. 8. (c) Of the brow : To knit it; that is, to throw the muscular part of it into a series of curves or wavy furrows. "Some have been seen to bite their pen, scratch their head, bend their brows , bite their lips, beat the board, and tear their paper."- Camden . (d) of the eyes, one of the ears, or of the foot steps: To turn towards or in a particular direction. "Why dost thou bend thine eyes upon the earth, And start so often when thou sitt'st alone?" Shakesp.: 1 Hen . IV ., ii. a 2. Fig. Of things immaterial: To incline them, to turn them in a particular direction. (1) To put in order for use. (The metaphor is taken from bending a bow.) "As a fowler was bending his net, a blackbird asked him what he was doing."-L'Estrange. (2) To conquer a person or people; to subdue by force; to humble. "What cared he for the freedom of the crowd? He raised the humble but to bend the proud." Byron: Lara, ii. 9. (3) To influence by gentler methods; to rule by means of the affections. "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him." Long fellow: The Song of Hiawatha , x. (4) To cause one's own mind or self to be concentrated upon any object of thought or aim. To apply (one's self) closely to. [BENT.] "Men will not bend their wits to examine whether things, wherewith they have been accustomed, be good or evil."-Hooker. (5) To direct to a certain point. "Octavius and Mark Antony Came down upon us with a mighty power, Bending their expedition tow'rd Philippi." Shakesp. Jul. Cæsar, iv. 3. To bend up: To bolden up. ( Scotch .) (Used in pa. par. bend it up .) ( Pit scottie .) II. In Cant Language: To drink hard. ( Scotch .) "To draw tippony bid adieu, Which we with greed Bended as fast as she could brew." Ramsay: Poсть, і. 215. (Jamie son.) B. Intransitive: L Literally: 1. To a ume the form of a curve; to be incurvated. "Their front now deepening, now extending; Their flank inclining, wheeling, bending, Now drawing back, and now descending." Scott: Marmion, vi. 18. 2. To jut over, to beetle over, as a cliff. [BENDING, a.] "There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully on the confined deep. Shakesp.: Lear, iv. 1. 511 3. To incline, to turn. II. Fig .: To be submi ive; to yield one's will to that of another. "Unus'd to bend , impatient of control." Thomson: Liberty, pt. iv. III. In special compounds or phrases: To be bent on or upon: To be resolved or determined upon, to have a fixed purpose or an irresistible propensity to do some particular thing. In this sense generally in pa. par. "Not so, for once, indulg'd they sweep the main, Deaf to the call, or, hearing, hear in vain: But bent on mischief, bear the waves before." Dryden.