1. A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.
2. Resembling bent. Holland.
BENUMB
Be*numb", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Benumbed; p. pr. & vb. n. Benumbing.]
Etym: [OE. binomen, p. p. of binimen to take away, AS. beniman; pref.
be + niman to take. See Numb, a., and cf. Benim.]
Defn: To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold. The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.
BENUMBED
Be*numbed", a.
Defn: Made torpid; numbed; stupefied; deadened; as, a benumbed body
and mind.
— Be*numbed"ness, n.
BENUMBMENT
Be*numb"ment, n.
Defn: Act of benumbing, or state of being benumbed; torpor. Kirby.
BENZAL
Ben"zal, n. Etym: [Benzoic + aldehyde.] (Chem.)
Defn: A transparent crystalline substance,