Bench : (noun)
1: a long seat for more than one person
2: the reserve players on a team; "our team has a strong bench"
3: a level shelf of land interrupting a declivity (with steep
slopes above and below) [syn: terrace]
4: persons who administer justice [syn: judiciary]
5: a strong worktable for a carpenter or mechanic [syn: workbench,
work bench]
6: the magistrate or judge or judges sitting in court in
judicial capacity to compose the court collectively [syn:
Bench]
(verb)
1: take out of a game; of players
2: exhibit on a bench; "bench the poodles at the dog show"
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Bench : \Bench\, v. i.
To sit on a seat of justice. [R.] --Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Bench : \Bench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Benched; p. pr. & vb. n.
Benching.]
1. To furnish with benches.
'T was benched with turf. --Dryden.
Stately theaters benched crescentwise. --Tennyson.
2. To place on a bench or seat of honor.
Whom I . . . have benched and reared to worship.
--Shak.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Bench : \Bench\, n.; pl. Benches. [OE. bench, benk, AS. benc;
akin to Sw. b["a]nk, Dan b[ae]nk, Icel. bekkr, OS., D., & G.
bank. Cf. Bank, Beach.]
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 down justice from your awful bench. --Shak.
4. The persons who sit as judges; the court; as, the opinion
of the full bench. See King's Bench.
5. A collection or group of dogs exhibited to the public; --
so named because the animals are usually placed on benches
or raised platforms.
6. A conformation like a bench; a long stretch of flat
ground, or a kind of natural terrace, near a lake or
river.
Bench mark (Leveling), one of a number of marks along a
line of survey, affixed to permanent objects, to show
where leveling staffs were placed.
Bench of bishops, the whole body of English prelates
assembled in council.
Bench plane, any plane used by carpenters and joiners for
working a flat surface, as jack planes, long planes.
Bench show, an exhibition of dogs.
Bench table (Arch.), a projecting course at the base of a
building, or round a pillar, sufficient to form a seat.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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BENCH. Latin Bancus, used for tribunal. In England there are two courts to
which this word is applied. Bancus Regius, King'sBench : Bancus Communis,
Com-mon Bench or Pleas. The jus banci, says Spelman, properly belongs to the
king's judges, who administer justice in the last resort. The judges of the
inferior courts, as of the barons, are deemed to, judge plano pede, and are
such as are called in the civil law pedanei judices, or by the Greeks
Xauaidixastai, that is, humi judicantes. The Greeks called the seats of
their higher judges Bumata, and of their inferior judges Bathra. The Romans
used the word sellae and tribunalia, to designate the seats of their higher
judges, and subsellia, to designate those of the lower. See Spelman's Gloss.
(ad verb.) Bancus; also, 1 Reeves Hist. Eng. Law, 40, 4to ed., and postea
Curia Regis.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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Bench : deck of a Tyrian ship, described by Ezekiel (27:6) as overlaid
with box-wood.
Based on Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [Bouvier_Law_Dictionary]:
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