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Bean

noun
1.
Any of various edible seeds of plants of the family Leguminosae used for food.  Synonym: edible bean.
2.
Any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans.
3.
Any of various leguminous plants grown for their edible seeds and pods.  Synonym: bean plant.
4.
Informal terms for a human head.  Synonyms: attic, bonce, dome, noggin, noodle.
verb
1.
Hit on the head, especially with a pitched baseball.



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"Bean" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hermes or Orpheus, the counterpart of the Finnish Wainamoinen and the Sanskrit Gunadhya. His wonderful pipe is the horn of Oberon, the lyre of Apollo (who, like the piper, was a rat-killer), the harp stolen by Jack when he climbed the bean-stalk to the ogre's castle. [18] And the father, in Goethe's ballad, is no more than right when he assures his child that the siren voice which tempts him is but the rustle of the wind among the dried leaves; ...
— Myths and Myth-Makers - Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology • John Fiske
... meal, and I have not land enough even for an insect to rest upon. I cannot even provide food for my poor old father. This is the reason why my wife, from time to time, has cut off a portion of her hair and sold it for an amount sufficient to buy a bowl of bean soup, which she has generously given to my father. This evening she cut off and sold the last tress of her hair, and thus she is ...
— Our Little Korean Cousin • H. Lee M. Pike
... Heaven's Gate was Heaven's Queen, 'And have ye sinned?' quo' She,— 'And would I hold him worth a bean That durst not seek, because unclean, My cleansing charity?— Speak thou that wast the ...
— Chivalry • James Branch Cabell
... and down the lane, "I don't see nobody else to shout at, so let's s'pose as I be shouting at ye, bean't ...
— The Amateur Gentleman • Jeffery Farnol et al
... part of it very well, old bean, but all the same the fellow wasn't taken in—not ...
— The Secret Adversary • Agatha Christie


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