ben

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The inner room or parlor of a house with two rooms.
• adverb Inside; within.
• preposition Within.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun See behen.
• In, into, or toward the inner apartment of a house; in or into the parlor. See ben, n.
• noun A prayer; a petition.
• noun A mountain-peak: a word occurring chiefly in the names of many of the highest summits of the mountain-ranges which traverse Scotland north of the friths of Clyde and Forth: as, Ben Nevis, Ben Mac-Dhui, Ben Lawers, etc.
• noun In mining: The right to enter the mine and work. A workman may claim his ben, have his right to ears acknowledged, and delegate it to his boys.
• noun Hence— A day's work. The terms quarter-ben, half-ben, three-quarters-ben are used to denote the proportion of a man's darg, or day's output of mineral, which a youth is able or allowed to put out.
• noun Obsolete or dialectal form of been.
• noun The inner apartment of a house; the parlor or “room” of a dwelling consisting of a but or outer room, used as a kitchen, and a ben or inner room, used as a parlor or chamber, access to the ben being originally through the but or kitchen.
• noun The ben-nut, properly the ben-nut tree.
• In mining, inward; toward the workings.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• (Bot.) The seed of one or more species of moringa. See moringa.
• noun Scot. The inner or principal room in a hut or house of two rooms; -- opposed to but, the outer apartment.
• obsolete An old form of the pl. indic. pr. of be.
• adverb Scot. Within; in; in or into the interior; toward the inner apartment.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Son of (used with Hebrew and Arabic surnames).
• noun A Scottish or Irish mountain or high peak.
• noun obsolete A prayer; a petition.
• preposition Scotland In, into.
• adjective Inner, interior.
• noun Scotland, Northern England Ben-room: The inner room of a two-room hut or shack (as opposed to the but).
• noun A tree, Moringa oleifera or horseradish tree of Arabia and India, which produces oil of ben.
• noun The winged seed of the ben tree.
• noun The oil of the ben seed.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a mountain or tall hill