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A machine for currying hides on a carriage, and thus effecting IMG:content-1149.png:[blocks in formation] The 1. A well-known cultivated plant, Vicia fab a of Linnæus, now called Faba vulgar is . It belongs to the order Legumin ose. stem is quadrangular and hollow; the leaves are alternate; they are pinnate with two to four leaflets. The flowers, which are fragrant, are papilionaceous, white, with violet-coloured veins and blotches looking almost black. The seeds are partly kidney shaped. The native country of Faba vulgar is is believed to be the regions near the Caspian Sea, the Levant, and Egypt. The word bean occurs twice in Scripture (in 2 Sam. xvii. 28, and Ezek. iv. 9). The Hebrew term is פול ( pûl ), Septuagint Greek κύαμος ( kuamos ) (see etymology), and seems correctly translated. Pythagoras and his followers would not eat it, and the flamen Dialis, or priest of Jupiter at Rome, was forbidden to touch it. Faba vul garis may be primarily divided into the Garden Bean and the Field Bean. Of the former there are numerous sub-varieties. The earliest is the Mazagan, which is small-seeded; whilst the largest is the Windsor. The Field Bean runs into two leading sub-varieties, a larger and a smaller one; the latter is called Ticks. The horse-bean is the variety equina . 2. ( Popularly .) Any leguminous plant resembling a bean, though not of the genuine genus Faba. (See French or Haricot bean, under No. II.) 3. ( Popularly .) Any plant with some vague resemblance to a bean in fruit, even though it be not even leguminous. Thus the Buck Bean, Menyanthes trifoliata , is properly of the Gentian order, and has no real affinity to Faba. [BUCK-BEAN.] II. Commerce, . The name given to the seeds of certain plants belonging to the natural order Legumin ose. The Common Field Bean is the seed of the Faba vulgar is , the Broad or Windsor Bean, being a cultivated variety of the same plant. The French or Haricot Bean is the seed of Phaseolus multiflo rus, and the Scarlet Runner (which is closely akin to the former) is Phaseolus vulgar is. IMG:content-1150.png:[blocks in formation] partly to the difficulty with which they are digested. Scarlet-runners and French beans are used in the pod, in the green state, and eaten as a vegetable. Bean-meal, which is more easily digested than whole beans, contains twice as much nitrogenous matter as wheat flour, and is more nutritious. It is sometimes used to adulterate flour and bread this can be readily detected by the microscope. The cells of the bean are larger, and the cell-walls much thicker, than those of the wheat. The starch granules are also different, being oval or kidney-shaped, and having an irregular, deep cleft down the centre. Roasted beans were formerly used to adulterate coffee. B. Attributively: Pertaining to the bean; consisting of plants allied to the bean. "Order CX.: Legumin ose or Fabacere, the Bean Tribe."-Lindley: Nat . Syst. Bot ., 2nd ed. (1836), p. 148. bean-caper, bean caper, s. [Eng. bean, and caper (q.v.).] The English name of the genus Zygophyllum, the typical one of the botanical order Zygophyllaceæ. The species, which are not particularly ornamental, have fleshy leaves and yellow or whitish-yellow flowers. They come from the Cape of Good Hope and other places. In the Plural ( Bean Capers ): The name given by Lindley to the order Zygophyllaceæ (q.v.). bean-cod, bean cod, s. The legume of a bean. [COD.] "Argent, three bean - cods ..."-Glo . of Heraldry. bean-crake, s. A local name for a bird, the Corncrake ( Crez pratensis ).