Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Ben

Ben ({not transcribed})

[Arabic bān, name of the tree.]

(Botany) The seed of one or more species of moringa; as, oil of ben. See Moringa.

Also: Ben nut

Ben , adverb and preposition

[Anglo-Saxon binnan; pref. be- by + innan within, in in.]

Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment. [Scottish]

Ben , noun

[See Ben, adv.]

The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment. [Scottish]

Ben , pl. indic. pr.

An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of Be. [Obsolete]