Word Meanings - ALEBENCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bench in or before an alehouse. Bunyan.

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• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• BENCH
  1. A long seat, differing from a stool in its greater length. Mossy benches supplied the place of chairs. Sir W. Scott. 2. A long table at which mechanics and other work; as, a carpenter's bench. 3. The seat where judges sit in court. To pluck
• BENCHER
  One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court. 2. An alderman of a corporation. Ashmole. 3. A member of a court or council. Shak. 4. One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
• BEFOREHAND
  1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
• BENCH WARRANT
  A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant.
• BEFORE
  1. In front of; preceding in space; ahead of; as, to stand before the fire; before the house. His angel, who shall go Before them in a cloud and pillar of fire. Milton. 2. Preceding in time; earlier than; previously to; anterior to the time when;
• ALEHOUSE
  A house where ale is retailed; hence, a tippling house. Macaulay.
• BENCH MARK
  Any permanent mark to which other levels may be referred. Specif. : A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• DISBENCH
  To deprive of his privileges. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. To drive from a bench or seat. Shak.
• CHURCH-BENCH
  A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
• WORKBENCH
  A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
• ALEBENCH
  A bench in or before an alehouse. Bunyan.
• KING'S BENCH
  Formerly, the highest court of common law in England; -- so called because the king used to sit there in person. It consisted of a chief justice and four puisne, or junior, justices. During the reign of a queen it was called the Queen's Bench. Its
• HEREINBEFORE
  In the preceding part of this .
• IMBENCHING
  A raised work like a bench. Parkhurst.
• DRAWBENCH
  A machine in which strips of metal are drawn through a drawplate; especially, one in which wire is thus made; -- also called drawing bench.