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21Bean weevil — Taxobox name = Bean weevils image width = 250px image caption = Acanthoscelides obtectus regnum = Animalia phylum = Arthropoda classis = Insecta ordo = Coleoptera subordo = Polyphaga infraordo = Cucujiformia superfamilia = Chrysomeloidea familia …
22bean, old — The Clasgow Herald, in 1920, equated the terms ‘old bean’ and ‘old thing’ and associated them with the English spoken by Piccadilly toffs. Sinclair Lewis seems to do something rather similar in Babbitt, published in 1922. He puts ‘old bean’… …
23Bean nighe — The bean nighe (Scottish Gaelic for washer woman ), is a Scottish fairy, seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld. She is a type of bean sìth (in Irish bean sídhe , anglicized as banshee ).LegendsAs the Washer at the Ford she… …
24bean — [[t]bi͟ːn[/t]] ♦♦♦ beans 1) N COUNT: usu pl, usu adj N Beans such as green beans, french beans, or broad beans are the seeds of a climbing plant or the long thin cases which contain those seeds. 2) N COUNT: usu pl, usu n N Beans such as soya… …
25Bean — This interesting name has three possible origins, the first being derived from an Anglo Saxon occupational name for a grower or seller of beans, from the Old English pre 7th Century bean , beans. The second origin is from the Middle English (1100 …
26Bean, Kent — infobox UK place country = England official name= Bean latitude= 51.4273 longitude= 0.286 population = shire district= Dartford shire county = Kent region= South East England Ambulance= constituency westminster= post town= postcode district =… …
27Bean machine — The bean machine, also known as the quincunx or Galton box, is a device invented by Sir Francis Galton to demonstrate the law of error and the normal distribution.The machine consists of a vertical board with interleaved rows of pins. Balls are… …
28bean-counter — n. accountant; statistician; someone who meticulously keeps track of numbers. The bean counters have decided we need to cut costs …
29Bean-Nighe — These Banshees of Scotland and Ireland are found around streams. They wash the bloodstained clothes of people who are going to die soon. These Banshees are the ghosts of women who died in childbirth, and they will continue to wash bloody… …
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30Charles Bean — This article is about the Australian journalist and historian. For the Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, see Charlie Bean. Charles Bean Portrait by George Lambert, 1924. Born November 18, 1879 …
