Bowmen bickered upon the bent.
Chevy Chase.
Bent" grass` (&?;). (Bot.) Same as Bent, a kind of grass.
Ben"thal (&?;), a. [Gr. &?; the depth of the sea.] Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.
Ben*tham"ic (&?;), a. Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.
Ben"tham*ism (&?;), n. That phase of the doctrine of utilitarianism taught by Jeremy Bentham; the doctrine that the morality of actions is estimated and determined by their utility; also, the theory that the sensibility to pleasure and the recoil from pain are the only motives which influence human desires and actions, and that these are the sufficient explanation of ethical and jural conceptions.
Ben"tham*ite (&?;), n. One who believes in Benthamism.
Bent"ing time" (&?;). The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peas are ripe.
Bare benting times . . . may come.
Dryden.
Bent"y (&?;), a. 1. A bounding in bents, or the stalks of coarse, stiff, withered grass; as, benty fields.