BEN 
volcanoes in the ifiand. The air is, indeed, full of malig¬ 
nant vapours, and the mountains always covered with thick 
clouds, which burft in dorms of thunder, rain, &c. lame 
buffaloes may be had here in plenty. Fifli and poultry 
are fearce and dear. The foil is a fertile clay, producing 
high grafs; but near the fea it is all morafs. The natives 
■build their dw ellings on bamboo pillars. Lat. 4. S. Ion. 
ior. 5. E. Greenwich. 
To BEND, v.a. pret. bended or bent-, part, paff. bended 
or bent, \_bcnden, Sax. bander, Fr. as Skinner thinks, from 
fiandare, Lat.] To make crooked ; to crook; toinfleft.— 
'The rainbow compaffeth the heaven with a glorious cir¬ 
cle, and the hands of the Mod High hath bended it. Ec- 
clus. —To direct to a certain point: 
To that fweet region was our voyage bent, 
When winds, and ev’ry warring element, 
Didurb’d our courfe Dry den. 
To apply to a certain purpofe ; to intend the mind.—When 
he fell into the gout, he was no longer able to bend his 
mind or thoughts to any public bufinefs.’ Temple. —To put 
any thing in order for life: a metaphor taken from the 
bending the bow.—As a fowler was bending his net, a black¬ 
bird afked him what he was doing > LEJlrange.— -To in¬ 
cline : 
But when to mifehief mortals bend their will, 
How foon they find fit indruments of ill! Pope. 
Tofubdue; to make fubmiffive : as, War and famine will 
bend our enemies. 
To bend the brow. To knit the brow ; to frown.—Some 
Lave been feen to bite their pen, fcratch their head, bend 
their brows, bite their lips, beat the board, and tear their 
paper. Camden. 
Bend, ».». To be incurvated. To lean or jut over: 
There is a clifF, whofe high and bending head 
Looks fearfully on the confined deep. Shakefpearc. 
Torefolve; to determine: in this fenfe the participle is 
commonly ufed : 
Not fo, for once indulg'd they fweep the main, 
Deaf to the call, or, hearing, hear in vain; 
But, bent on mifehief, bear the waves before. Dryden. 
To be fubmiffive ; to bow.—The fons of them that afflict¬ 
ed thee fliall come bending unto thee, ljaiah. 
Bend,/! Flexure; incurvation: 
His coward lips did from their colour fly ; 
And that fame eye, whofe bend doth awe the world. 
Did lofe its luftre. Sha'kefpeare. 
The crooked timbers which make the ribs or Tides of a 
fillip. With heralds, one of the eight honourable ordina¬ 
ries, containing a fifth when uncharged ; but, when char¬ 
ged, a third part of the efcutcheon. It is made by two 
lines, drawn thwartways from the dexter chief to the 11- 
nifter bafe point. 
“ It is beft to bend, while it is a twig.” The French fay, 
Ce que poulain prend en jeunefie, 
ll le continue dans la vieillejje. 
"What the colt learns, the horfe feldom forgets.’ This 
proverb is defigned as a leffon to parents to bring up their 
children, as Solomon fays, in the way they are to go, while 
they are young, and not, by a fupine negledt, or too eafy 
carriage towards them, to fuffer them to contract evil ha¬ 
bits,. which it will be very difficult to break them of, or 
to imbibe principles which cannot be eafily effaced in more 
advanced years. 
Bend, a towrt of Perfia, in the province of Farfiffan, 
100 miles north-eaft of Schiras. 
BEND'ABLE, adj. That may be incurvated;. that may 
be inclined. 
BEND A'LI, a town of Perfia, in the province of Ker¬ 
man, 140 miles fouth of Sirgian. 
BEND ARM ALAN'KA, a town of Hindoffan, in the 
circar of Rajamundry, thirty-eight miles fouth of Raja- 
mundry, and fifty north-eafl of Mafulipatanv. 
BEN 883 
BENDEIRG', a mountain of Scotland, in the county 
of Perth, 3550 feet above the level of the fea. It is fe- 
ven miles north of Blair Athol. 
BEND'ER,/! The perfon who bends. The inffrument 
with which any thing is bent.—Thefe bows, being fome- 
what like the long bows in ufe amongft 11s, were bent on¬ 
ly by a man’s immediate ftrength, without the help of any 
bender , or rack, that are ufed to others. Wilkins. 
Bender, or Tekin, a town of European Turkey, in 
Beffarabia, fituated on the Dniefter. It was feized by the 
Ruffians in the year 1770, and again in 1789, but reffored 
in 1790. Charles XII. king of Sweden, when he put him- 
felf under the protection of the Turks, refided at Bender, 
until, refufing to quit their territory, he was attacked by 
them, and, being made prifoner, was carried to the neigh¬ 
bourhood of Adrianople, where he remained another year, 
and then returned fecretly to his own dominions. It is' 
100 miles weft of Otchakov, and 10a eaft of Jaffi. Lat, 
47.0.N. Ion. 47. 58. E. Ferro. 
Bender du Ser, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Kerman, 160 miles fouth of Sirgian. 
Bender Abbassi. See Gomroon. 
Bender Delem, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Farfiftan, on the north coaft of the Perfian gulf, 130 miles 
weft of Schiras. 
Bender Ibrahim, a town of Perfia, at the mouth of 
the river Ibrahim, in the Perfian gulf. 
Bender Rigk, a town of Perfia, in the province of 
Kerman, on the north coaft of the Perfian gulf,. governed 
by an Arabian prince, who has other polfelfions in the 
fame province, which render him, in fome refpe&s, de¬ 
pendent on the throne of Perfia. It is 132 miles weft- 
fonth-weft of Schiras. 
BENDI'DA,/! in antiquity, a feftival, not unlike the 
Bacchanalia, celebrated by the Athenians in honour of 
Diana. 
BEND'ING,/! The reducing a body to a. curved or 
crooked form. The bending of boards, planks, &c. is ef¬ 
fected by means of heat, whether by boiling or otherwife, 
by which their fibres are fo relaxed that they may be bent 
into any figure. Bernouilli has a difeourfe on the bending 
of fprings, or elaftic bodies. And Amontons gives feveral 
experiments concerning the bending of ropes. The fric¬ 
tion of a rope bent or wound about an immoveable cylinj. 
der, is fufficient, with a very fmall power,, to fuftain very 
great weights. 
Bending, in the fea-Ianguage, the tying two ropes or 
cables together : thus they fay, bend the cable, that is, make 
it faft to the ring of the-anchor; bend the fail, make it faff 
to the yard. 
BENDO'RAN, a mountain of Scotland, in the county 
of Argyle. 
BENDORF', a town of Germany, in the circle of Weft, 
phalia, and chief place of a bailiwick of the fame name, 
in the county of Sayn, inhabited by Roman Catholics and 
Lutherans. It is five miles north of Coblentz. 
BEN DUBH, a mountain of Ireland, fituated partly in 
King’s County, and partly in the county of Tipperary, 
fixteen miles weft of Kilkenny. 
BEN'DY,/. in heraldry, is the field divided into four, 
fix, or more, parts, diagonally, and varying in metal and 
colour. The general cuftom of England is to make an 
even number; but in other countries they regard it not,, 
whether even or odd. 
BE'NE, a town of Italy, in the principality of Pied¬ 
mont, and diftridt of Mondovi, defended by an ancient 
caftle. It contains about 4000 inhabitants,.two churches,, 
and three convents. It was taken by the French revolu¬ 
tionary troops in April, 1796; and is five miles fouth of 
Cherafco, and twenty-eight fouth of Turin. 
BENEAP'ED, adj. [from neap.~\ A ftiip is faid to b®r 
beneaped, when the water does not flow high enough to 
bring her off the ground, over a bar, or out of a dock. 
BENEATH', prep, \_beneoth, Sax. beneden, Dut.3 Under;, 
lower in place-; oppofed to above ; 
Their 
