An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language / in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals

by John Jamieson

BENNER, adj. A comparative formed from ben. Inner, S. B.
Poems Buchan Dial.

BENMOST is used as a superlative, signifying innermost.
Ferguson.

Teut. binnenste is synon.

BEN-INNO, prep. Within, beyond, S. B.
Journal Lond.

From [ben], q. v. and A. S. inne, or innon, within; Alem. inna; Isl. inne, id.

There-ben, adv. Within, in the inner apartment, S.
V. [Thairben].

BEND, s.
1. Band, ribbon, or fillet; pl. bendis.
Douglas.
"Bend, a border of a woman's cap, North.; perhaps from band," Gl. Grose.
2. It is used improperly for a fleece.
Douglas.

A. S. bend, baende, Moes. G. bandi, Germ. band, Pers. bend, vinculum.

To BEND, v. n. To drink hard; a cant term, S.
Ramsay.

BEND, s. A pull of liquor, S.
Ramsay.