beann.
/biːn/, U.S. /bin/ 1. A smooth, kidney-shaped, laterally flattened seed, borne in long pods by a leguminous plant, Faba vulgaris.The garden variety, or Broad-bean, is used, in its green state, as a culinary vegetable, esp. in Britain by the poorer classes, as in the proverbial ‘beans and bacon’; Field- and Horse-beans, when ripened to a brownish-black colour, are used as food for horses and cattle, and have also been made into bean-meal, used for coarse bread.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean
beanc1000
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 84 Genim bean mela.
c1325 Coer de L. 6004 Whete & ooten, pesen and bene.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. vi. 184 Lete hem ete..benes and bren ybaken togideres.
c1394 P. Pl. Crede 762 A great bolle-full of benen were betere in his wombe.
1475 Bk. Noblesse 69 Benys, pesyn, and aveyn for horsmete.
1551 W. Turner New Herball 178 Beanes..are harde of digestion, and make troblesum dreames.
1620 T. Venner Via Recta i. 17 Bread made of Beanes is very drie.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4357/4 At Ham..are to be sold, Garden Beans, Gosport-Beans.
1832 E. Lankester Veg. Substances Food 218 In Barbary..stewed with oil and garlic, beans form..the principal food of persons of all classes.
2. The cultivated plant that bears this seed; it has fragrant violet-tinted white flowers, whence the often-mentioned ‘fragrance of the bean-fields’.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > bean-plant
bean940
940 Chart. Eadmund in Cod. Dipl. V. 265 Of þistelleage to beanleage.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. lxiv. 953 Benes [1495 de Worde beenys] bereþ white floures.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Febve In Cuckoe-time when Beanes doe flower.
1728 J. Thomson Spring 25 Where the Breeze blows from yon extended Field Of blossom'd Beans.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. i. viii. 57 It will grow verily, like the Boy's Bean in the Fairy-Tale, heaven-high.
3. The plant and seed of the allied genus Phaseolus, of which the best-known species are the French, Kidney, or Haricot Bean ( P. vulgaris), and Scarlet Runner ( P. multiflorus). The unripe pods of both, and the ripe seeds of the former, are used as culinary vegetables. Navy bean: the dried haricot. pea bean: a small variety of it.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean
bean1548
garden bean1557
the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > other beans
bean1548
black bean1569
calavance1620
red bean1658
seven-year bean1666
lablab1670
Cajan1693
dal1698
adzuki1727
tick-bean1744
tick1765
toker1786
mash1801
Congo pea1812
stick bean1823
moog1840
moth1840
Lima1856
feijão1857
asparagus pea1859
mung1866
wall1884
Rangoon bean1903
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. G.iiij Kydney, or arber beanes, because they serue to couer an arber for the tyme of Summer.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 140v The vertues of Kidney beanes. The fruyt is sodden wyth the sede, and it is eaten after the maner of a wurt or eatable herbe, as sperage is eaten.
1632 R. Sherwood Dict. in R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.) (at Bean) French, or Romane Beanes.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. v. ix. 341 She who has quietly shelled French-beans for her dinner.
4. Name given to the seeds of other plants, usually from some resemblance in shape to the common bean; e.g. Queensland bean n. Australian name for a tall climbing leguminous plant Entada scandens, bearing long scimitar-shaped pods, which are used to make match-boxes, snuff-boxes, etc.: the seed is also called match-box bean (see match n.2 Compounds 2) and scimitar-pod (see scimitar pod n. at scimitar n. Compounds 2). Leichhardt's bean n. = Queensland bean n. Egyptian bean n. the seed of the Lotus ( Nelumbium speciosum). Pythagorean bean n. = Egyptian bean n. bean of Molucca n. seed of Guilandina Bonducella. bean of St. Ignatius n. seed of Strychnos amara. Tonka bean n. the perfumed seed of Dipterix odorata; so too coffee-bean n., etc. See also buck-bean n., locust bean n. at locust n. Compounds 2.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants yielding poison > [noun] > trees or shrubs yielding poison > upas tree or bean
bean of St. Ignatiusa1398
Ignatius' Bean1751
ipoh1779
upas1814
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > water-lilies > part of
lily crop1390
Pythagorean bean1483
Egyptian bean1551
lily-pad1843
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > shrubs > non-British shrubs > [noun] > tropical > bonduc > seed of
bean of Molucca1611
Molucca bean1675
Molucca nut1696
nicker1696
Virgin Mary's nut1703
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants, nuts, seeds, or fruits used as beads or vessels > [noun] > cacoon plant or bean
sea-bean1696
cacoon1854
segra1864
sequa1866
scimitar pod1871
Queensland bean1889
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. lxiv. 955 Benes groweþ in Egipte wiþ scharpe prikkes... Such a bene is ten cubite longe wiþ an heed as a popy; and þerinne benes beþ yclosed and þat heed is reed as a rose.
1483 W. Caxton tr. A. Chartier Curial sig. iijv The benes of Pictagoras..gafe better sauour.
1551 W. Turner New Herball 123 The beane of Egipt is..astryngent.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Anacarde, th' East-Indian fruit called Anacardium, or Beane of Malaca.
1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 215 The St. Ignatius's bean..is prescribed by the native practitioners of India in cholera.
c1865 J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 351/1 The organic acids..of the coffee-beans.
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Native Plants Austral. 175 Entada scandens..‘Queensland Bean’. ‘Leichhardt Bean’.
5.
a. Any object resembling a bean in shape.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > spheroidicity > spheroid > object
acornc1388
almonda1400
bean1561
egg1589
ovala1868
1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 38v Take the beanes or hinderfallinges of Goates.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 274 The dryed beanes of a Cutle fish.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 106 Beans (Newcastle), small coals.
b. The head. slang (originally U.S.). bean ball n. Baseball a ball pitched at the batter's head.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun]
nolleOE
headOE
topa1225
copc1264
scalpa1300
chiefc1330
crownc1330
jowla1400
poll?a1400
testea1400
ball in the hoodc1400
palleta1425
noddle?1507
costard?1515
nab?1536
neck1560
coxcomb1567
sconce1567
now1568
headpiece1579
mazer1581
mazardc1595
cockcomb1602
costrel1604
cranion1611
pasha1616
noddle pate1622
block1635
cranium1647
sallet1652
poundrel1664
nob1699
crany?1730
knowledge box1755
noodle1762
noggin1769
napper1785
garret1796
pimple1811
knowledge-casket1822
coco1828
cobbra1832
coconut1834
top-piece1838
nut1841
barnet1857
twopenny1859
chump1864
topknot1869
conk1870
masthead1884
filbert1886
bonce1889
crumpet1891
dome1891
roof1897
beanc1905
belfry1907
hat rack1907
melon1907
box1908
lemon1923
loaf1925
pound1933
sconec1945
nana1966
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > baseball > [noun] > pitching > types of pitch
change of pace1650
slow ball1838
passed ball1860
ball1863
rib roaster1864
called ball1865
low ball1866
wild pitch1867
curveball1875
short pitch1877
grass cutter1879
fastball1883
downshoot1886
lob ball1888
pitchout1903
bean ballc1905
spitball1905
screwball1908
spitter1908
sinker ball1910
fallaway1912
meatball1912
fireball1913
roundhouse1913
forkball1923
sinker1926
knuckle ball1927
knuckler1928
gofer1932
slider1936
sailer1937
junk1941
change up1942
eephus1943
junkball1944
split-finger(ed) fastball1980
change1982
c1905 C. Dryden Champion Athletics 16 While pitching Mr. Bender places much reliance on the bean ball.
1908 H. Green Maison de Shine 130 Pop swung on a guy an' come near knockin' his bean offa him.
1910 Evers & Fullerton Touching Second vi. 92 One of the greatest and most effective balls pitched is the ‘bean ball’. ‘Bean’ is baseball for ‘head’.
1912 A. H. Lewis Apaches N.Y. 20 Beat it, before I bump me black-jack off your bean!
1923 R. D. Paine Comrades Rolling Ocean x. 168 If these Dutchmen get nasty, bang their blighted beans together.
1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror ii. 63 Have I got to clump you one on the side of the bean?
6. Literary and proverbial uses:—1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross II. vii. 199 'Ounds, 'osses, and men, are in a glorious state of excitement! Full o' beans and benevolence!1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 171 Full of beans, arrogant, purseproud. A person whom sudden prosperity has made offensive and conceited, is said to be too ‘full of beans’. Originally stable slang.1875 B. Disraeli Let. 20 Aug. in Lett. to Lady Bradford (1929) I. xvi. 275 The Sultan..was full of beans.1881 Earl Granville in E. Fitzmaurice Life (1905) II. 237 ‘Full of beans’, an ‘ossy’ phrase.1911 J. Galsworthy Patrician i. x Versatile, ‘full of beans’.1925 Daily News 20 Aug. 7/1 He does it—being full of grit, And also full of beans, sir!1927 J. Elder Thomasina Toddy xxiii. 226 We start off—oh, full of beans—and then we stop.1835 in Amer. Speech (1965) 40 127 I pose you heard ob de battle New Orleans, Whare Ole Gineral Jackson gib de British Beans.1892 Punch 24 Sept. 133 Bad enough if you 'ave to wolf one, but it fair gives yer beans when 'tis two.1893 Pick-me-up 5 Aug. 302 He would get beans at Bedford.1900 Daily News 5 June 3/4 We started shelling them in the open, and gave them beans.1903 Daily Chron. 15 Oct. 5/6 Sir Henry..was invited to give ‘Old Joe’, ‘beans’, and ‘beans’ the Leader of the Opposition proceeded to administer to the ex-Colonial Secretary.1905 H. G. Wells Kipps vi. § 4 When this here old Bean told me, you could have knocked me down with a feather.1914 Evening News 29 Sept. 2/2 We can't get them in the open, only on very rare occasions, and when we do, by gum, they don't half get beans!1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 231 Chorus—‘Goodnight, old bean.’1918 Blighty Christmas No. 27 ‘What made you join the air service?’ ‘No earthly reason, old bean!’1920 Punch 1 Sept. 168/1 The anxiety of the ‘Bewildered Parent’ who complains of the child of two and a-half years who addressed her learned parent as ‘Old bean’.1920 Glasgow Herald 29 Sept. 3 The story is..told..in the patois of Piccadilly of the ‘old bean’ and ‘old thing’ variety.1946 P. G. Wodehouse Joy in Morning xvii. 145 He wanted to give me beans, but Florence wouldn't let him. She said ‘Father you are not to touch him. It was a pure misunderstanding.’1955 J. Thomas No Banners xxix. 286 I say, old bean, let's stick together.
a. in reference to a bean's small value; cf. straw n.1 7a.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth
ivy-leafc1000
needle?c1225
sloec1250
peasea1275
strawc1290
bean1297
nutc1300
buttonc1330
leekc1330
trifle1375
cress1377
goose-wing1377
sop1377
niflec1395
vetcha1400
a pin's head (also point)c1450
trump1513
plack1530
toy1530
blue point1532
grey groat1546
cherry-stone1607
jiggalorum1613
candle-enda1625
peppercorn1638
sponge1671
sneeshing1686
snottera1689
catchpenny1705
potato1757
snuff1809
pinhead1828
traneen1837
a hill of beans1863
gubbins1918
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 497 Al nas wurth a bene.
c1325 Poem temp. Edw. II xlvii No rich man..dredeth God The worth of a bean.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iii. 141 (Wright) To be corsed in consistorie She counted noght a bene [v.r. russhe].
1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1483) i. xv. 9 Al my wyt auayleth nought a bene.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. cxxxiiij Thei set not by the Frenche kyng one bene.
1656 T. Hobbes Questions Liberty, Necessity & Chance 328 But all this will not advantage his cause the black of a Bean.
b. in reference to the former use of beans in balloting.
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the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [noun] > means of signifying choice > ball or bean
ballot1549
ball1550
bean1579
1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 352 He was one yeare mayer, or prouost of Athens..He came to it, by drawing of the beane.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 15 Abstaine from beanes, i.e. Intermeddle not in the affaires of State.
1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 58 To convey each man his bean or ballot into the box.
c. in reference to the custom of appointing as King of the company on Twelfth-night, the man in whose portion of the cake the bean was found. [Lauder's reference appears to be to this, though he seems to have confounded the 16th cent. English bean /bɛːn/ with his own Scottish bane ‘bone.’]† Queen of the Bean n. Obsolete the woman to whom the bean in the Twelfth-cake falls, and who therefore becomes mock sovereign of the Twelfth-Night feast.
/bɛːn/ with his own Scottish bane ‘bone.’]† Queen of the Bean n. Obsolete the woman to whom the bean in the Twelfth-cake falls, and who therefore becomes mock sovereign of the Twelfth-Night feast.ΚΠ
1556 W. Lauder Compend. Tractate Dewtie of Kyngis sig. A2v Thir kyngs yai ar, bot kyngs of bane. And schort wyl heir yare tyme be gane.
1592 Speech at Sudely 8 in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth II Cut the cake: who hath the beane shall be kinge; and where the peaze is she shall be quene.
1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. Bb4v Beane's the King of the sport.
1652 J. Wright tr. J.-P. Camus Nature's Paradox iii. 53 Shee thought to triumph over all her Competitors and be Queen of the Bean.
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 55 The cake was often full of raisins among which one bean and one pea were introduced.
d. in proverbial expressions.
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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hii Alwaie the bygger eateth the beane.
1556 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbs Eng. Tounge (rev. ed.) i. x. sig. Biii Hunger makth hard beanes swete.
?a1600 Marriage Wit & Wisdom (1846) iv. 45 It is not for Idlenis that men sowe beanes in the wind [i.e. labour in vain].
a1624 Bp. M. Smith Serm. (1632) 178 Euery Beane hath his blacke.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd I. ii.i. 90 Few men..who better knew how many blue beans it takes to make five.
1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. at Beans He knows how many beans make five, is a very common description of a cute, clever fellow.
1898 M. Beerbohm Around Theatres (1924) I. 25 You say you've never heard How many beans make five? It's time you knew a thing or two—You don't know you're alive!
1958 ‘A. Gilbert’ Death against Clock vi. 86 Mr. Crook knew how many beans make five.
e. Slang phrases: not to know beans (U.S.): not to know something, to be not well informed; not to care beans (U.S.), not to care at all; a hill of beans (originally U.S.): a thing of little value (cf. sense 6a); to spill the beans (see spill v.); to be full of beans: to be full of energy, and in high spirits (cf. beany adj. 1) (see also quot. 1874); to give (a person) beans (originally U.S.): to deal severely with, to punish heavily; so to get beans; old bean (cf. old adj. Compounds 5b), a familiar form of address.
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the mind > emotion > indifference > [verb (intransitive)]
to put in no chaloir1477
not to care1490
to let the world wag (as it will)c1525
not to care a chip1556
to hang loose (to)1591
(to bid, care, give) a fig, or fig's end for1632
not to careor matter a farthing1647
not to care a doit1660
(not) to care twopencea1744
not to give a curse (also damn)1763
not to care a dump1821
not to care beans1833
not to care a darn1840
not to give a darn1840
not to care a straw (two, three straws)1861
not to care (also give) a whoop1867
(to care) not a fouter1871
not to care (or give) a toss1876
not to give (also care) a fuck1879
je m'en fiche1889
not to care a dit(e)1907
je m'en fous1918
not to give a shit1918
to pay no nevermind1946
not to give a sod1949
not to give (also care) a monkey's (fuck)1960
not to give a stuff1974
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > abound with energy
to be full of beans1833
zing1966
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > be ignorant [phrase] > know nothing
to say (also know) neither buff nor stye?a1750
to know little (or nothing) and care less1783
not to know beans1833
not to have the remotest1864
(not) to know from nothing1933
not to know shit from Shinolaa1948
the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth
ivy-leafc1000
needle?c1225
sloec1250
peasea1275
strawc1290
bean1297
nutc1300
buttonc1330
leekc1330
trifle1375
cress1377
goose-wing1377
sop1377
niflec1395
vetcha1400
a pin's head (also point)c1450
trump1513
plack1530
toy1530
blue point1532
grey groat1546
cherry-stone1607
jiggalorum1613
candle-enda1625
peppercorn1638
sponge1671
sneeshing1686
snottera1689
catchpenny1705
potato1757
snuff1809
pinhead1828
traneen1837
a hill of beans1863
gubbins1918
society > authority > punishment > [verb (intransitive)] > receive punishment > be punished severely
to buy the bargain dear1352
smart1534
sweata1625
to nap it1699
to get it1805
to catch or get Jesse1839
to get (also catch, take) it in the neck1881
to get beans1893
to get (also do) the book1928
the mind > emotion > love > terms of endearment > [noun] > familiar form of address
mon amic1425
matec1500
boy1532
old lad1594
old boy1602
captaina1616
mon cher1673
old chap1823
old man1828
ou maat1838
boysie1846
old top1856
boetie1867
bra1869
cocker1888
mon vieux1888
face1891
yessir1892
George1903
old sport1905
old bean1917
segotia1917
babe1918
bro1918
tovarish1918
old egg1919
midear1921
old (tin of) fruit1923
sport1923
mush1936
cowboy1961
coz1961
wack1963
yaar1963
John1982
1833 A. Greene Life & Adv. D. Duckworth II. 66 He don't know beans.
1855 Yale Literary Mag. 20 192 Whatever he knows of Euclid and Greek, In Latin he don't know beans.
1857 Knickerbocker Feb. 138 I don't care beans for the railroad.
1863 ‘E. Kirke’ My Southern Friends v. 80 I..karn't take Preston's note—'taint wuth a hill o' beans.
1888 Chicago Herald One has to know beans to be successful in the latest Washington novelty for entertainment at luncheons.
1901 W. N. Harben Westerfelt 5 He didn't care a hill o' beans fer no gal.
1904 ‘O. Henry’ Cabbages & Kings xii. 216 He wasn't a hill of beans to her.
1926 D. H. Lawrence Let. 4 Jan. (1962) II. 876 Saying my say and seeing other people sup it up doesn't amount to a hill o' beans, as far as I go.
f. Formerly, a sovereign or a guinea; now only in phraseological use, a coin, a bit of money ( not a bean, no money whatever, not a cent). slang.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > coins collective > [noun] > a coin
minteOE
minteOE
crossc1330
coinc1386
cross and (or) pilea1393
penny1394
croucha1420
penny1427
piece1472
metal1485
piecec1540
stamp1594
quinyie1596
cross and pilea1625
numm1694
ducat1794
bean1811
dog1811
chinker1834
rock1837
pocket-burner1848
spondulicks1857
scale1872
chip1879
ridge1935
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum Bean, a guinea.
1834 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood III. iii. vi. 34 As yellow as a bean.
1837 W. H. Ainsworth Rookwood (rev. ed.) xxviii. 245 Offering a bean to half a quid (in other words, a guinea to a half-guinea).
1885 D. C. Murray Rainbow Gold v. vi ‘Here's some of the beans,’ he continued figuratively, as he drew five sovereigns from the same pocket.
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy xii. 80 Flood, who had anteed up his last bean.
1928 J. Galsworthy Swan Song ii. iv They..never saved a bean, having no beans to save.
1928 D. L. Sayers Unpleasantness at Bellona Club iii None of the Fentimans ever had a bean, as I believe one says nowadays.
Compounds
C1. General relations.
a. Objective with agent-noun or verbal noun.
bean-setter n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > planting of specific plant or crop > [noun] > one who
bean-setter1824
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 25 Troops of stooping bean-setters.
bean-setting n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > planting > planting of specific plant or crop > [noun]
corn-planting1809
bean-setting1824
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 26 What work bean-setting is!
b. Instrumental.
(a)
bean-election n.
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society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [noun] > using beans
bean-election1820
1820 Edinb. Rev. 34 303 The folly of the bean-election.
(b)
bean-fed adj.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > in easy circumstances
fat1526
bean-fed1889
sitting pretty1915
1889 R. Kipling From Sea to Sea vi, in Wks. (1900) I. 289 The bean-fed, well-groomed subaltern with the light coat and fox-terrier.
c. Similative.
(a)
bean-ore n.
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1816 J. Mawe Descr. Catal. Minerals (ed. 2) 13 There are several other Oxides of Iron described by authors, but they may be referred to some of the varieties already noticed; such are Pea Ore, Bean Ore, Kidney Ore, &c.
(b)
bean-shaped adj.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > kidney-shaped
nephroideous1682
reniform1745
kidney-shaped1758
kidney form1794
bean-shaped1836
nephroid1849
1836–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. II. 530/2 A kidney or bean-shaped hole called foramen ovale.
d.
(a) Attributive (of the seed).
bean-bread n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > other types of bread
sergeant-loafa1348
clear-matin1362
bean-breadc1380
French bread1420
pease-breada1425
bran-breadc1425
grey breadc1430
angels' breadc1440
dough bread?a1500
baker's bread?1550
acorn bread1571
cart-bread1574
chapter-bread1600
diet-bread1617
ember-bread1681
buff coat1688
bust-coat1706
Picentine bread1712
chestnut-bread1814
naan1828
gluten-bread1846
to-bread1854
batch-bread1862
injera1868
coffee cake1879
pan dulce1882
quick bread1882
sour bread1884
Tommy1895
focaccia1905
hard-dough bread1911
hush puppy1918
potica1927
spoon bread1932
bake1933
pitta1936
hard-dough1966
pain de campagne1970
pocket bread1973
ciabatta1985
pain au levain1985
levain1991
c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 61 Þei myȝtten vnneþe before haue bene-bred & watir or feble ale.
bean-broth n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses
lentil-pottage1649
bean-broth1702
pea soup1703
pease-soup1706
lentil-broth1820
lentil-soup1820
bean-soup1837
1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1207 Bean, or Mandarin Broth..made of the Seed of Sesamum.
bean-corn n.
bean-diet n.
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the world > food and drink > food > diet > [noun] > specific diets
Lessian diet1646
milk-diet1671
flesh-diet1731
meagre1770
bean-diet1820
mono-diet1920
Hay diet1925
Mediterranean diet1928
Atkins1972
slim1977
F Plan Diet1982
1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 161 One much giv'n To a bean-diet.
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bean-flour n.
bean-meal n.
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > bean-meal
lomentc1420
puffins1587
bean-meal1847
c1000 Sax. Leechd. II. 84 Genim Bean mela.
1847 Gardeners' Chron. 144 The fitness of Bean-meal for cheap bread.
bean-porridge n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > porridges > [noun]
polentaOE
papelotec1400
pottagea1500
crowdy-mowdy?a1513
drowsen1519
pease porridge?1548
plum pottage1574
sowens1582
grout1587
orgementa1590
plum porridge1591
loblolly1597
pease pottage1600
girt-brew1620
washbrew1620
lentil-porridge1622
hominy1630
porridgea1643
samp1643
nettle-pottage1659
nettle-porridge1661
crowdie1668
suppawn1670
mush1671
rockahominy1674
stirabouta1691
praiseach1698
sagamité1698
brochan1700
atole1716
burgoo1750
purry1751
fungee1789
pepper porridge1803
kasha1808
mamaliga1808
skilligalee1819
bean-porridge1821
skilly1839
sap porridge1842
corn-mush1846
oatmeal mush1850
pap1858
ugali1860
oatmeal1873
mealie-meal1880
mealie-pap1880
uji1889
sadza1899
nsima1907
putu papa1910
posho1927
putu1949
ogi1957
whey-porridge-
1821 R. B. Thomas Farmer's Almanack 1822 2–6 June Uncle Jeremy..never turned up his nose at a bowl of bean-porridge.
1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 286 Two days more would..ripen bean-porridge to the fine perfection of ‘nine days old’.
bean-soup n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > soup or pottage > [noun] > soup with pulses
lentil-pottage1649
bean-broth1702
pea soup1703
pease-soup1706
lentil-broth1820
lentil-soup1820
bean-soup1837
1837 J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches (1838) 98 Hollering oysters and bean soup has guv' me a splendid voice.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xvi. 169 A stock of concentrated bean-soup was cooked.
bean-water n.
(b) Of the plant.
bean chaff n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > bean-plant > stubble or chaff of
bean chaffc1420
bean-brush1677
bean-stubble1742
c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 110 Two basketfull of bene chaf.
bean-field n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > bean-land or -field
bean-land1744
bean-field1870
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. ii. 454 Thy soft breezes blow Sweet with the scent of beanfields far away.
bean-flower n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > bean-plant > stalk or blossom
bean-flower1610
beanstalk?c1800
1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God iv. viii. 164 Brutus..kept her feast..with beane-flowre, and bacon.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 25 The distilled water of bean-flowers.
bean-haulm n.
bean-honey n.
bean-husk n.
bean-land n. [Old English bēan-land]
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land raising crops > [noun] > bean-land or -field
bean-land1744
bean-field1870
1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Jan. iv. 48 Keeping the Bean-land clear of the Thistle.
1960 Times 5 July Agric. Suppl. iii/4 The traditional wheat and beanlands—now usually minus the beans—no longer produce the highest yields.
bean-plant n.
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1883 Culture of Veg. & Flowers (Sutton & Sons) 271 The Bean Aphis...the Bean Plant Louse, or Black Dolphin.
bean-plot n.
bean-pod n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > bean-pod(s)
bean-cod1615
bean-hull1647
bean-pod1733
1733 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming xli. 348 Here is free access even to the minutest part of the Stalk-blossom or Bean-pod.
1913 D. H. Lawrence Love Poems 37 You..who fall to earth At last like a bean-pod.
bean-rick n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick
moweOE
rickeOE
pease-ricka1325
stackc1330
tassc1330
rucka1382
hayrick14..
haystack14..
sedge reekc1440
hay-mow1483
hay-goaf1570
rack1574
hovel1591
scroo1604
mow-stack1611
sow1659
corn-rick1669
bean-rick1677
barley-mow1714
pea rick1766
rickle1768
bike1771
stacklet1796
bean-stack1828
1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 18 His Creditors crowd to him as Pigs do..to a Bean and Peas Rick.
bean-row n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > vegetables or pot-herbs > beans > row of beans
bean-row1890
1890 W. B. Yeats Lake Isle of Innisfree i Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee.
bean-season n.
bean-seed n. [Old English bēan-sǣd]
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > bean-seed
bean-seed1744
1744 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman Jan. iv. 46 They begin..to sow their Bean-seed in two Forms or Methods.
1934 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. x. 218 The weights of bean-seeds.
bean-stack n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking > stack or rick
moweOE
rickeOE
pease-ricka1325
stackc1330
tassc1330
rucka1382
hayrick14..
haystack14..
sedge reekc1440
hay-mow1483
hay-goaf1570
rack1574
hovel1591
scroo1604
mow-stack1611
sow1659
corn-rick1669
bean-rick1677
barley-mow1714
pea rick1766
rickle1768
bike1771
stacklet1796
bean-stack1828
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) III. 91 The obstinate bird ran away behind a bean-stack.
bean-stubble n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > bean-plant > stubble or chaff of
bean chaffc1420
bean-brush1677
bean-stubble1742
1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman June iii. 27 To prepare a Bean-stubble for Turneps.
1840 C. Howard Farming at Ridgemont 138 in Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III The process of cultivation as thus described on fallow lands, is pursued in the same manner when the wheat has been sown on..a bean-stubble.
bean-wood n.
e. In the names of various machines for harvesting field beans and preparing them for use, as bean-harvester, bean-mill, bean-sheller, bean-thresher.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Bean-mill.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. I. 257/2 Bean-harvester..Bean-sheller.
C2. Special combinations.† bean-cod n. Obsolete a bean-pod; also applied to a kind of river boat in use in Portugal. † bean-stick n. Obsolete = beanpole n.
bean-belly n. a great eater of beans, a nickname of dwellers in Leicestershire.
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1659 E. Leigh Eng. Descr. 114 Leicestershire..yeeldeth great abundance of Peas and Beans..insomuch that there is an old by-word..Leicestershire Bean-Belly.
bean-brush n. the stubble of beans.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > bean-plant > stubble or chaff of
bean chaffc1420
bean-brush1677
bean-stubble1742
1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 240 Ploughing in the bean-brush at All-Saints.
bean-butter n. a dish made from unshelled beans.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > preparations of pulses
bean-butter1552
tofu1704
succotash1751
baked beans1798
chana1838
Boston baked beans1853
accra1864
vada1882
bean cake1887
soy cheese1890
chana dal1895
soybean curd1895
refried beans1897
soya1897
natto1899
bean paste1904
bean curd1909
soya bean curd1911
soy1945
hummus1955
tempeh1966
tarka dal1984
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Beane butter, conchis.
bean cake n. a material consisting of compressed beans, or some substitute, deprived of oil, used in China as a food and fertilizer.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > preparations of pulses
bean-butter1552
tofu1704
succotash1751
baked beans1798
chana1838
Boston baked beans1853
accra1864
vada1882
bean cake1887
soy cheese1890
chana dal1895
soybean curd1895
refried beans1897
soya1897
natto1899
bean paste1904
bean curd1909
soya bean curd1911
soy1945
hummus1955
tempeh1966
tarka dal1984
the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > use of other natural fertilizers > other natural fertilizers
marl1280
pomacec1450
cod's head1545
buck-ashes1563
bucking-ashes1577
guano1604
greaves1614
rape cake1634
muck1660
wool-nipping1669
willow-earth1683
green dressing1732
bone flour1758
bone powder1758
poudrette1764
bone dust1771
green manure1785
fish-manure1788
wassal1797
lime-rubbish1805
Bude sand1808
bone1813
cancerine1840
inch-bones1846
bonemeal1849
silver sand1851
fish guano1857
food1857
terramare1866
kainite1868
fish-flour1879
soil1879
fish-scrap1881
gas lime1882
bean cake1887
inoculant1916
1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 733/2 Bean-cake..is also imported in large quantities from New-chwang, Chefoo [etc.].
bean-caper n. English name of the genus Zygophyllum, South African plants with fleshy leaves and flowerbuds used as capers.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding condiments or used in food preparation > [noun] > other plants yielding condiments
bean-caper1597
Hercules' club1882
koniak1884
1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 750 Called after the Latine, Beane Caper.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > bean-pod(s)
bean-cod1615
bean-hull1647
bean-pod1733
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > types of regional vessel > in Spain or Portugal
zabra1523
bean-cod1769
mulet1867
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xv. 16 His wambe gefyllan of þam bean-coddum [v.r. bien-coddun; Lindisf. G. bean-bælgum; Hatton G. bean-coddan.]
1615 G. Markham Eng. House-wife (1668) ii. ii. 52 A good simple Sallet is Camphire, Bean cods, Sparagus, and Cucumbers.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Bean-cod, a small fishing-vessel..extremely sharp forward, having its stem bent inward above into a great curve.
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bean-crake n. local name of the Corncrake.
bean curd n. a thick jelly or paste made from beans, eaten in north China and adjacent countries.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > preparations of pulses
bean-butter1552
tofu1704
succotash1751
baked beans1798
chana1838
Boston baked beans1853
accra1864
vada1882
bean cake1887
soy cheese1890
chana dal1895
soybean curd1895
refried beans1897
soya1897
natto1899
bean paste1904
bean curd1909
soya bean curd1911
soy1945
hummus1955
tempeh1966
tarka dal1984
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Bean curd.
1967 O. Wynd Walk Softly vii. 110 The cry of the bean-curd seller.
bean-dolphin n. the aphis or plant-louse of the bean.
bean-fed adj. figurative living on the best of everything.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [adjective] > fed > fed in specific way
pen-fedc1400
stall-feda1555
mast-fed1566
grass-fed1575
bean-fed1590
soiled1608
corn-fed1787
summered1804
pair-fed1951
zero-grazed1958
1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. D4v Forehorse of my beanefed Teeme.
bean-fly n. a beautiful insect, of pale purple colour, found on beans.
bean-hull n. (also Scottishbean hool) a bean-pod.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > bean-pod(s)
bean-cod1615
bean-hull1647
bean-pod1733
1647 R. Stapleton tr. Juvenal Sixteen Satyrs 259 Give me a beane-hull.
1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 135 He shall hide himself in a bean-hool, if he remains on Scottish ground without my finding him.
bean metal n. Salt-mining marl in the form of granules (cf. beany metal at beany adj. 2).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > marl > bean marl
beany marl or metal1886
bean metal1892
1892 Cornhill Mag. Sept. 263 A shaft is sunk till the ‘flag’ or ‘bean metal’ has been pierced.
bean-mouse n. name given to the Long-tailed Field-mouse.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > order Rodentia or rodent > superfamily Myomorpha (mouse, rat, vole, or hamster) > [noun] > family Muridae > genus Apodemus (field-mouse)
mygalea1382
field mouse?1440
ranny1559
hardishrew1601
wood mouse1601
nossro1686
bean-mouse1766
St. Kilda mouse1899
Fair Isle1906
1766 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. i. 49 They are called bean mice, from the havoke they make among beans when first sown.
bean oil n. oil expressed from beans in the manufacture of bean cake, used as an illuminant.
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the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > artificial light defined by light-source > [noun] > oil-lamp > oils burnt in
Camphine1842
bean oil1908
1908 Westm. Gaz. 15 Oct. 13/2 According to reports from Chefoo,..Bean-oil is giving place to kerosene.
bean paste n. = bean curd n.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared vegetables and dishes > [noun] > preparations of pulses
bean-butter1552
tofu1704
succotash1751
baked beans1798
chana1838
Boston baked beans1853
accra1864
vada1882
bean cake1887
soy cheese1890
chana dal1895
soybean curd1895
refried beans1897
soya1897
natto1899
bean paste1904
bean curd1909
soya bean curd1911
soy1945
hummus1955
tempeh1966
tarka dal1984
1904 R. J. Farrer Garden of Asia 146 Buns stuffed with the cloying mustiness of bean-paste.
beanpole n. one used for beans to twine round, figurative a lanky fellow.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > stake for plants
fork1389
incrementc1420
stakingc1440
stay1577
stick1577
bean-wood1584
pea stick1745
beanpole1798
stickings1800
bean-stick1823
pea-stake1840
flower-stick1881
pea-bough1885
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the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [noun] > and thinness > person
lungis1572
gangrel1582
slangrel1592
maypole1600
slangam1611
mackerel-back1674
spider-catcher1699
gilly-gaupus?1719
tangle1778
beanpole1798
windlestraw1818
lankyc1863
narrowback1921
leptosome1931
string-bean1936
streak1941
1798 T. B. Hazard Diary 10 May (1930) 210/2 I dugd up Dung for to Put on the Garden and gott Bean and Pee Poles.
1837 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 137 Mr. Jehiel, a bean-pole of a lawyer.
1900 E. Brucken N. Amer. Forests 61 Hop poles, bean poles, Christmas trees.
bean-shatter n. ? bird-scarer.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > sowing and planting equipment > [noun] > bird-scarer
scarlec1440
scare1530
blencher1531
shail1531
fray-boggard1535
crow-keeper1562
malkinc1565
clacket1594
scarecrow1606
clap-mill1613
field keeper1620
shaw-fowl1621
bean-shatter1639
clapper1660
dudman1670
clack1678
hobidy-booby?1710
worricow1711
cherry-clapper1763
flay-crake1788
potato-bogle1815
cherry-clack1824
feather-piea1825
flay-crow1824
gally-baggar1825
gally-crow1825
bogle1830
tatie-bogle1838
shewel1888
scare-string1889
1639 J. Shirley Ball iv. sig. F3v To Fright away crowes, and keepe the corne, beaneshatter.
bean-shooter n. U.S. ‘a toy for shooting beans, shot, or other small missiles; a pea-shooter’ ( Cent. Dict. 1889).
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > toy weapons > [noun]
poop1489
pellet1553
trunk1553
elder-gun1600
popgun1649
spitter1688
pluff1695
whistling arrowa1718
pea-shooter1782
pea gun1812
detonating ball1814
pea-blower1821
pen-gun1821
pipegun1828
torpedo1831
spring gun1837
putty blower1861
tweaker1862
pluffera1866
bean-shooter1890
putty shooter1896
water pistol1897
stink bomb1915
cap-pistol1920
cap-gun1931
laser gun1961
1890 Congress. Rec. Mar. 1920/1 Some boy, with a bean-shooter..struck Mr. Benjamin.
bean-shot copper n. that obtained in rounded grains, by pouring it, when melted, into hot water.
bean sprouts n. (plural) the edible sprouting seeds of any of several varieties of legume (esp. the mung bean), used cooked or raw, originally in Chinese cookery; occasionally in singular.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > pulse > [noun] > bean > bean sprout
bean sprouts1921
1921 China Med. Jrnl. 35 428 The mung bean sprout..has a larger calcium content than the original bean.
1922 Jrnl. Home Econ. 14 65 The soybean..is the source of a large number of products... The most important are the bean milk, bean curd, bean sauce (soy), bean sprouts, bean oil and bean cake.
1958 Catal. County Stores (Taunton) June 16 Chinese..Bean sprouts..a tin 1/7½, 2/4.
1984 M. Polunin New Cookbk. 18 Mustard and cress and beansprouts have the advantage that they are growing—and maintaining their food value—right up to the moment you eat them.
beanstalk n. the stem of the bean-plant: so called in the fairy-tale of ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > bean-plant > stalk or blossom
bean-flower1610
beanstalk?c1800
?c1800 (title) The Surprising History of Jack and the Bean Stalk.
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. i. 74 Jack's beanstalk was nothing to it.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > stake for plants
fork1389
incrementc1420
stakingc1440
stay1577
stick1577
bean-wood1584
pea stick1745
beanpole1798
stickings1800
bean-stick1823
pea-stake1840
flower-stick1881
pea-bough1885
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1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 54 Thrust a bean-stick into the ground.
bean-straw n. the dried stems of the bean-plant.
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the world > food and drink > food > animal food > [noun] > fodder > hay or straw
hayc825
strawc1000
pease-strawa1325
bean-strawc1386
hard meat1481
quitch?1523
meadow1557
pease-bolt1573
salt hay1648
stover1669
barley-straw1678
marsh hay1728
pea straw1735
chaff1772
long forage1794
bog-hay1799
bhusa1829
peavine hay1846
tibbin1900
slough hay1934
c1386 G. Chaucer Merchant's Tale 178 [A] woman thirty yere of age..is but bene-straw.
bean-vine n. common name of Phaseolus diversifolius. See also bean-feast n., bean-goose n., bean-tree n., bean-trefoil n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > pulses or plants producing pulses > [noun] > bean > other types of bean-plant
horse-bean1684
Angola pea1756
pole bean1770
Congo pea1812
Canavalia1828
no-eye pea1837
overlook1837
bean-vine1838
asparagus-bean1856
sword-bean1875
jack bean1885
horse-gram1886
winged bean1910
tepary1912
adzuki1914
siratro1962
1838 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 27 July in Amer. Notebks. (1972) ii. 88 Bean vines &c running up round the doors.
bean weevil n. any of various small beetles of the subfamily Bruchinae (family Chrysomelidae), spending most of their lives inside a single bean seed; also called seed beetle.Formerly placed in their own family, Bruchidae.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Bruchiidae or Lariidae > member of genus Bruchus > bruchus varicornis (bean-weevil)
seed beetle1771
bean weevil1870
bruchid1890
1870 in Mass. Agric. Rep. i. 370 I sent specimens of the bean weevil..to Dr. G. A. Horn..who pronounces it to be..a native species (B. varicornis of Leconte).
1959 E. F. Linssen Beetles Brit. Isles II. 176 (title) Phytophaga, Bruchidae—Pea ‘Weevils’ and Bean ‘Weevils’.
bean-wood n. = beanpole n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > stake for plants
fork1389
incrementc1420
stakingc1440
stay1577
stick1577
bean-wood1584
pea stick1745
beanpole1798
stickings1800
bean-stick1823
pea-stake1840
flower-stick1881
pea-bough1885
trainer2004
1584 King James VI & I Ess. Prentise Poesie sig. Miiij Some bucklit on a benwod, & some on a bene.
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bean aphid n. (more fully black bean aphid) a black or dark green aphid, Aphis fabae, which is a common pest of many cultivated plants.
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1905 Farmers' Bull. (Orange River Colony Dept. Agric.) No. 8 14 Pea and Bean aphids.
1951 C. L. Metcalf & W. P. Flint Destructive & Useful Insects (ed. 3) xx. 827 Species of importance in the flower garden include: bean aphid, Aphis fabae.
1967 T. Lewis & L. R. Taylor Introd. Exper. Ecol. iv. 180 Aggregation and regular migration can both be clearly seen in the life cycle of the Black Bean Aphid, Aphis fabae..in U.K.
2009 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 1 June 88 With your runner beans, for example, black bean aphids like nasturtiums even more than they like beans, so planting nasturtiums nearby can be an effective measure.
bean aphis n. now rare = bean aphid n.
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1796 W. Marshall Agric. Provincialisms in Rural Econ. Midland Counties (ed. 2) II. 386 Smother fly; the bean aphis.
1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xii. 244 The bean or dock aphis (Aphis rumicis) is probably our most common and abundant plant louse.
1965 J. D. Carthy Behaviour of Arthropods vii. 96 The bean aphis..makes such movements from spindle trees to bean plants in the spring and in the reverse way in the autumn.
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bean beetle n. any of various beetles which feed on bean plants; esp. a bean weevil (family Chrysomelidae), or (in North America) the Mexican bean beetle, Epilachna varivestis.
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1850 Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1849: Agric. 340 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. 20, Pt. 2) VI Bruchidæ, (the pea and bean beetles). Peas and beans are often inoculated in the field by a group of beetles, called improperly ‘bugs’ by farmers.
1889 U.S. Bureau Entomol. 20/1 Natural enemies of the bean beetle have not been a factor in the control of this insect in any part of this country.
1931 K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entomol. ix. 131 These beetles are known variously as Bean Beetles, Broad Bean Beetles and, erroneously, as Pea and Bean Weevils.
1990 Monographiae Biol. 65 230 The bean beetle (Anthoscelides obtectus) with its..unique use of two habitats..is a very exciting model to study colonization by insects.
2001 Org. Gardening May 71/1 If hordes of Mexican bean beetles are defoliating your wax beans, you can bet that nearby mantises will be munching beetles.
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beanburger n. a burger made from (esp. kidney) beans and other vegetables, rather than from meat; such a burger served in a bread roll.
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1943 Catal. Copyright Entries: Pt. 4 (Libr. of Congr. Copyright Office) XXXVIII. 225/2 Tetley beanburger soy dinner mix.
1966 Observer 13 Feb. (Suppl.) 28/1 Brunchbars (have a beanburger?) have made their appearance.
1993 R. Lowe & W. Shaw Travellers 132 That first year I mainly sold beanburgers.
2007 BBC Good Food: Vegetarian Summer 50/1 My beanburgers are nutritious, delicious and the kids love to prepare them.
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beanv.
/biːn/, U.S. /bin/ slang (chiefly U.S.).
transitive. To hit on the head.
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society > authority > punishment > [verb (transitive)] > severely
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to come down1888
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to gie (or give) (someone) laldy1935
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking on specific part of the body > strike on specific part of body [verb (transitive)] > on the head
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1910 Amer. Mag. 398/2 He is in extreme danger of being ‘beaned’, which, in baseball, means hit in the head.
1924 P. G. Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror v. 93 Why did you not bean him with a shoe before he could make his getaway?
1939 C. Morley Kitty Foyle xii. 124 She was beaned by a copy of A Girl of the Limberlost that fell from the third floor.
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