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▪ I. bennet1|ˈbɛnət|
Also 5 benet, bennett.
[ME. herbe beneit, prob. a. OF. herbe beneite (in mod.F. benoîte), transl. L. herba benedicta ‘blessed herb,’ in It. erba benedetta, Ger. benedicte, also benedictenkraut, benedictenwurz. Of herba benedicta Platearius is quoted in the Ortus Sanitatis of 1486, as saying ‘Where the root is in the house the devil can do nothing, and flies from it; wherefore it is blessed above all other herbs.’ (Prior.) To what plant these virtues were originally ascribed, and how the name was eventually attached to Geum urbanum, cannot be determined: see Prior.]
In Herb Bennet, name of a species of Avens, Geum urbanum (family Rosaceæ), a common European wayside plant with yellow flower. The name was vaguely or inaccurately applied by early herbalists, being given also to the Hemlock and, according to Prior, to the Wild Valerian.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture in Babees Bk. (1868) 184 Herbe benet, bresewort, & smallache. 1578Lyte Dodoens 133 The leaues of..Auens, or Herbe Bennet, are rough. 1653Urquhart Rabelais iii. xxxi, The Fervency of Lust is abated by certain Drugs, Plants, Herbs, and Roots..Mandrake, Bennet, Keckbuglosse. 1883Longm. Mag. July 308 The roadside herb-bennet or common avens is yellow, like cinquefoil.
▪ II. ˈbennet2
An earlier form of bent, still commonly retained in the south of England, in the sense of ‘grass-stalk,’ ‘old stalk of grass.’ way bennet: the Wild Barley-grass (Hordeum murinum). See bent n.1 Also in comb.
1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 177 Only feeding of them [Pigeons]..about Midsummer before Pease be ripe, which time they usually call Benting-time, because then necessity inforceth them to feed on the Bents or seed of Bennet-grass. 1862Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. II. 85 Wither'd bennet-stems. Ibid. Ser. iii. 73 Above the bennet-bearing land. 1880Jefferies Hodge & M. I. 135 The lowly convolvulus grew thickly among the tall dusty bennets.
▪ III. † ˈbennet3 Obs.
A fish of the African seas.
1731Medley Kolben's Cape G. Hope II. 187 In the sea about the Cape there is plenty of the fish call'd Bennets. 1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) I. 322 The Bennet is near three feet long..the eyes and tail are red, the fins yellow, and the scales purple with gold streaks. |