bennet

[ ben-it ]

noun

1. herb bennet.

bennet

/ ˈbɛnɪt /

noun

1. short for herb bennet

Word History and Origins

Origin of bennet¹

1225–75; Middle English ( herbe ) beneit < Old French ( herbe ) beneite, translation of Latin ( herba ) benedicta blessed (herb) (> Old English benedicte, Old High German benedicta, Middle Dutch benedictus-kruid ). See Benedictus

Example Sentences

Tall dry bennets and some low bushy heath grew at his side.

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Bevis, with his eyes shut, kept quite still under this luxurious tickling for some time, till Mark, getting tired, put the bennet delicately on his lip, when he started and rubbed his mouth.

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These eggs, when taken and the yolk blown out, were strung on a bennet and so carried home.

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It requires a practised eye, that knows precisely where to look among the grass, to detect him hidden in the bunch under the dead, dry bennets.

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Lethierry allowed her to soil her fingers a little in gardening, and even in some kind of household duties: she watered her beds of pink hollyhocks, purple foxgloves, perennial phloxes, and scarlet herb bennets.

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