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Beden

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Beden
    (Zoöl) The Abyssinian or Arabian ibex (Capra Nubiana). It is probably the wild goat of the Bible.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) beden
    A kind of ibex.
Usage in literature

Note that some of the above forms are due to a confusion with those of the verb ~Beden~. "A Concise Dictionary of Middle English" by A. L. Mayhew and Walter W. Skeat

Lik en wrlandeske forstinne wilde hju erath fresath and beden wesa, men Min-erva wilde enkel minth wesa. "The Oera Linda Book" by Anonymous

Item, Wymondham had entred in to Felbryge and he whas put out be the comens and like if had beden to have lost hes heed. "The Paston Letters, Volume II (of 6)"