Ben
- Alt. of Ben nut
- adv. & prep. Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.
- adv. The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; — opposed to but, the outer apartment.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.