ben (ben)

[Gael. and Ir. beinn, peak, summit, mountain, W. pen, top, summit, head.] A mountain-peak: a word occurring chiefly in the names of many of the highest summits of the mountain-ranges which traverse Scotland north of the friths of Clyde and Forth: as, Ben Nevis, Ben Mac-Dhui, Ben Lawers, etc. Sweet was the red-blooming heather And the river that flowed from the Ben . IMG:content-1924.png:[blocks in formation] And therefore he a courtier was benamed . Sir P. Sidney. 2. To promise; give. Much greater gyfts for guerdon thou shalt gayne, Than Kidde or Co et, which I thee bynempt . Spenser, Shep. Cal., November.