Benefaction, n. Gift, donation, gratuity, grant, offering, contribution, boon, present, alms, charity.
Benefice, n. Ecclesiastical living.
Beneficence, n. Charity, bounty, liberality, generosity, alms-giving, active goodness, kind action, doing of good.
Beneficient, a. Bountiful, munificent, liberal, generous, bounteous, princely, kind.
Beneficial, a. Useful, profitable, advantageous, helpful, serviceable, salutary, good, for one's advantage, for one's good, for one's interest.
Benefit, n. 1. Favor, service, act of kindness, good turn, kind office.
2. Advantage, profit, avail, gain, good, utility, behalf, behoof, account, interest.
Benefit, v. a. 1. Befriend, help, serve, do good to, be useful to, advance the interest of, confer a favor on.
2. Profit, advantage, avail, be of advantage to.
Benevolence, n. Kindness, benignity, kind-heartedness, humanity, tenderness, charitableness, good-will, disposition to do good, milk of human kindness.
Benevolent, a. Kind, benignant, benign, kind-hearted, obliging, humane, tender, charitable, disposed to do good.
Benighted, a. 1. Overtaken with night.
2. Involved in darkness.
Benign, a. 1. Kind, benevolent, gracious, complaisant, humane, obliging, benignant, good, amiable, friendly, kind-hearted, tender-hearted, of a gentle disposition.
2. (Med.) Mild, of a mild nature.
Benignant, a. Kind, benign.
Benignity, n. 1. Kindness, graciousness, benevolence, complaisance, humanity, amiability, amenity, friendliness, kind-heartedness, fellow-feeling, good feeling, good humor, good temper, obliging manner.
2. [Rare.] Mildness.
Benison, n. Blessing, benediction.
Benne, n. Sesame, oil-plant.
Bent, n. Disposition, inclination, tendency, turn, penchant, leaning, bias, propensity, proclivity, predisposition, predilection, partiality, liking, fondness, proneness, appetency.
Bent, a. Crooked, hooked, bowed, curved, aduncous, arcuate, incurvate.
Benumb, v. a. Stupefy, paralyze, deaden, blunt, make torpid, render insensible.
Be of opinion, Think, believe, conclude, judge, suppose, imagine, fancy, deem, wern, opine, hold, entertain the idea, take it.
Be on the carpet, Be under consideration, be upon the tapis.
Bequeath, v. a. Leave, demise, devise, will, give by will.
Bequest, n. Legacy, devise.
Berate, v. a. 1. Scold, chide, reprimand, rate.